Medicines Management
Issue no 2, p6
March/April 2002

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Pharmaceutical care support system wins IT award

Primary Care Pharmacy Ltd in Tamworth, Staffordshire, has won third place in the best use of IT in any health care sector category of the 2002 Healthcare Information Technology Effectiveness awards.

The company was awarded the prize in recognition of its pharmaceutical care support systems. The system can be used to monitor remotely patients' blood pressures.

Commending the project the judges said: "This well conceived project has enormous potential and we eagerly wait to see it implemented across a wider region."

First place in the overall award for best use of IT in the health service was won by Wirrall Hospital NHS Trust for an evaluation of an automated dispensing system in use at the trust. Keith Fararr, director of pharmacy, Wirrall Hospital, said that the judges were impressed by the level of data on the project, which had allowed more effecient use of staff time as well as reducing dispensing errors by almost half.

The Healthcare Effectiveness IT awards are run by the British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information management, with other partners including the DoH and NHSIA.