Online access to formulary and drug guidelines wins IT award
Anthony Grosso, formulary pharmacist, (left) and Simon Keady, lead
paediatric pharmacist at UCLH, using the award-winning system |
A team from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has won the First DataBank Europe Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists information technology award for 2007.
The winning entry involved developing a system that allows users to search
through an online version of the trust’s formulary and to view
up-to-date drug-related clinical guidelines.
Anthony Grosso, formulary pharmacist at UCLH, said that the Inform system
is used by a number of staff throughout the day and night, suggesting
that staff on call have found the system helpful. It is updated by specialist
pharmacists in each area of care who have been given passwords.
Ways of integrating the Inform system with electronic prescribing software
used at the trust are currently being investigated.
The project team was due to be presented with an award of £2,500,
to develop the system further, at the inaugural United Kingdom Clinical
Pharmacy Association and GHP IT interest group joint seminar, on 6 June,
after Hospital Pharmacist had gone to press.
Those interested in applying for the 2008 award should contact Suzie
Creighton (e-mail suzie_creighton@firstdatabank.co.uk, telephone 01392
456181).
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