Winners of Ask About Medicines Awards announced
Left to right: Jane Cooper, Stephen Jacobs, Ann Potter, and Dianne
Wright, from the Expert Patient Programme Community Interest Programme,
receiving their award |
NHS Direct, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Terrence Higgins Trust and the Parkinson's Disease Society are among this year's winners of the Ask
About Medicines Awards for Excellence.
The awards recognise high quality information that patient groups, NHS
bodies, professional organisations and pharmaceutical companies produce
to help people with their medicines and medicine taking.
The 2007 winners
were announced last week by Sheila Shribman, the Department of Health’s
national clinical director for children, at an awards ceremony in London.
A new award, “Excellence in Ask About Medicines Week activities”,
sponsored by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, went to NHS Direct for
its online enquiry service: medicines information pilot, an online service
run by pharmacists and launched during Ask About Medicines Week 2006.
The award for “Excellence in communicating with carers or non-health
care professionals working with patients and medicine users” was
won by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust for its guide “Giving
your child medicines”.
The Terrence Higgins Trust took home the “Excellence in the use
of technology” award, sponsored by IMS Health, for an educational
DVD for people newly diagnosed with HIV.
The award for improving communication between health care professionals
and medicine users, sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme, was won by
the Parkinson’s Disease Society. The patient group organised a
hospital campaign — “Get it on time” — designed
to ensure that all people with Parkinson’s disease get their medicines
on time by encouraging hospital staff to understand more about Parkinson’s
disease medicines and to listen to people with Parkinson’s disease.
Cancerbackup took the award for “Excellence in reaching diverse
populations” for an initiative that provides people unable to read
print with access to cancer information on audio cassette.
The “Excellence in providing medicines information to medicine
users and the public” category, sponsored by the National Pharmacy
Association, was won by the Expert Patient Programme Community Interest
Programme for its programme of lay-led self-management courses — “From
patient to person” — for people living with long-term conditions.
Runners up included Lloydspharmacy for its asthma medicines use support
service, the Collaborative Working Group NHS Argyll and Clyde for a patient
medication guide, and East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust
pharmacy team for its 2006 Ask About Medicines Week campaign. Asthma
UK was highly commended for its medicines use review resources for community
pharmacists.
The winners were decided by a panel of 22 judges including health professionals
and lay members.
The awards were developed by Ask About Medicines in partnership with
the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. |
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