Hospital Pharmacist
2007;14:213
July/August 2007

News summary

Two hospital teams are winners of care awards

Two projects from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust were among the winners of this year’s Pharmaceutical Care Awards, organised by The Pharmaceutical Journal and sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline and the Company Chemists’ Association.

A project by Inga Andrew, Macmillan senior clinical pharmacist, and her team, was designed to improve the care of patients with anorexia-cachexia syndrome, by developing a standard resource to be used by any health care professional.

Another project, by Margaret Ledger-Scott, clinical directorate and chief pharmacist, and her team, involved designing a patient-held medication booklet to reduce errors on patient transfer between care settings.

Coverage of the awards was published in The Pharmaceutical Journal earlier this month (2007;279:10–14).