Pharmacist projects win national awards
Two medicines management projects involving pharmacists were among the winners of the inaugural general medical services and personal medical services Awards of Excellence, presented at the NHS
Alliance Conference in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, this week.
Every patient receiving a repeat prescription at Phoenix Medical Practice
in Doncaster, which was awarded the GP practice medicines management
award, had a medicines check in the past year.
When the “review due” date on each patient’s repeat
prescription came round, GPs at the practice carried out a paper-based
medication review, comparing the patient’s repeat prescriptions
with the medical records. The reviews also assessed whether all necessary
diagnostic and screening tests had been carried out. If they had not,
the patient was telephoned and a face-to-face review of the patient’s
medicines, conducted by either the GP or by the practice pharmacist,
was arranged.
The primary care organisations medicines management award was won by
the medicines management team at Rugby PCT. In all but two of the practices
in the PCT, more than 90 per cent of patients has received medicines
reviews.
The PCT has had a team of medication review pharmacists since August
2002 and it also now employs medicines management technicians.
The awards, jointly sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals and Schering
Plough, were open to GP practices and primary care organisations across
the UK which had gained the maximum points available under the quality
and outcomes framework. |
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