ABPI rewards pharmacy initiatives
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Pharmacists involved in initiatives to reduce antibiotic prescribing and to provide pharmaceutical care to patients in an accident and emergency department are among the winners of the 2006 Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's pharmacy awards, announced this week.
Jyoti Saini, of Eastern Birmingham Primary Care Trust, won an award for
an initiative to reduce inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics within
the PCT. The PCT used the local media and theatre workshops in schools
to deliver patient education programmes and piloted a minor ailments
scheme in community pharmacies. The initiative helped the PCT move from
being the highest prescriber of antibiotics among 303 PCTs in England
to being the 84th highest.
Pamela Mills, principal pharmacist for redesign at the clinical decisions
unit of Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, won one of the four awards for
a pilot which sought to provide rapid access to pharmaceutical care for
patients referred to the clinical decisions unit of an accident and emergency
department and to improve patients’ knowledge of their medicines.
She says that, over an 11-week period, 821 inpatient bed days were saved
and follow-up of patients showed that, after discharge, 97 per cent were
able to remember the indication and dose of their medicines.
Awards were also won by Anne Kinnear, of Lothian University Hospitals
Trust, for a project involving pharmaceutical care of patients with acute
stroke, and Janet Thomas, of Wrexham Maelor Hospital, for an initiative,
run in conjunction with the Welsh Ambulance Trust, to provide patients
with bags to allow them to bring all their medicines to hospital with
them. |
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