UKCPA winners announced at symposium
Roger Knaggs (left) receives his award from Ian
Arkless, medical education manager, Napp Pharmaceuticals |
Roger Knaggs, from Queen's Medical Centre University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, was presented the 2005 Napp pain award at the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association symposium in Leeds recently.
Mr Knaggs received the £1,500 award for his project entitled: “Prescribing
and clinical outcomes after strong opioid recommendation for chronic
non-cancer pain from a pain clinic.”
The Lilly UK critical care award was presented to Hayley Wells, specialist
renal pharmacist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust,
London, for her work on monitoring a high-cost drug in critical care
units.
Also presenting their projects at the symposium were Mark Tomlin, consultant
critical care pharmacist at Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust,
who won the GlaxoSmithKline advanced practitioner award for his work
on supplementary prescribing in intensive care, and Christine Oates,
lead clinical pharmacist at Darlington Memorial Hospital, whose team
won the Boehringer-Ingelheim respiratory award for their work in a pharmacist-led
asthma clinic.
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