The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7401 p583
20 May 2006

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UKCPA/GHP award winners

This year's United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists Pfizer patient safety award has been won by Bryony Dean Franklin, principal pharmacist, clinical services, and director of the academic pharmacy unit at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, for her evaluation of an internet-based medication safety educational package.

Professor Dean Franklin recorded the number of medicine administration errors (MAE) made by nurses before and after completing a medication safety training package. The results showed that, for non-intravenous drugs, MAE rates were 6.1 per cent pre-education and 4.2 per cent afterwards (95 per cent confidence interval for the difference -0.2 to -3.6 per cent).

The Wyeth education and training award went to Sheila Woolfrey, lead pharmacist, medicine, at Wansbeck General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, for the development of a medicines management course for pharmacy technicians.

The winner of the IVAX leadership award was Laura O’Loan, assistant director, London Pharmacy Education and Training, for the development and implementation of a collegiate model of management.

The awards were presented at the UKCPA and GHP joint conference held in London last week.