Pharmacy innovation rewarded by ABPI
Six pharmacy teams have won this year's Association
of the British Pharmaceutical Industry pharmacist awards for innovative projects improving the quality of prescribing, dispensing or administration of medicines, and contributing to better patient access to high quality pharmaceutical care.
The prize, sponsored attendance at the 2007 British
Pharmaceutical Conference to be held in Manchester next week, was awarded to the pharmacist at
the head of each of the projects.
The winners are:
• Alison Foster, senior pharmacist, NHS Ayrshire and Arran. The NHS
board’s project involved pharmacists educating Parkinson’s
patients in the community to enable them to better manage the timing
of when they take their medicines.
• David Gill, head of pharmacy, Angus Community Health Partnership, for
the development of a standardised training package for all social care
workers in the local area, so that they can appropriately assist elderly
patients who are taking multiple medicines.
• Linda Ferguson, business development manager, Manor Pharmacy, Ilkeston,
for setting up an aseptic dispensing unit in the community pharmacy to
supply syringes for palliative care patients in the community, in collaboration
with two primary care trusts in the area.
• Paul Deslandes, pharmacy department, NHS Cardiff and Vale, for a research
programme looking at the use of an automated methadone dispensing system,
which includes patient iris scanning, in a drug intervention programme
in a secondary care clinic setting.
• Scott Pegler, medicines information pharmacist, Swansea NHS Trust,
for involvement in setting up an electronic prescribing system for patients
discharged from hospital. The system improves the efficiency of getting
discharge medicines to patients and the system’s database will
provide data for future planning.
• Sheila Brown, prescribing adviser, Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary
Care Trust, for a weight management scheme delivered in community pharmacies.
Overweight individuals are identified, seen by dieticians and other health
workers in the pharmacy, and offered anti-obesity medicines through a
pharmacist consultation. |
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