by Anita Hogg | Mar 23, 2018 | Events, News Release
Anita Hogg and Laura Downing represented MOIC at the Northern Health and Social Care Trust (NHSCT) iQi one year on event.
The iQi (Innovation Quality Improvement) initiative was set up to formalise an approach to innovation and quality improvement (iQi) within Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – which has patient safety at its heart, supported by service improvement to deliver excellent, integrated services in partnership with our community.
Attendees heard from Gill Smith, Innovation and Quality Improvement Lead, NHSCT, on the work iQi have been doing over the past year, and the plan to scale up some of the great initiatives staff within the various trusts in Northern Ireland have been working on.
Guest speaker, Dr John Harden, Clinical lead for Quality and Safety in Scotland talked about the pitfalls of incentivised systems, and how poor housing, social and economic deprivation is impacting life expectancy – and what the Scottish Government has done over the last ten years to improve Health & Social Care through improvement and innovation.
Staff within the HSC showcased the work they’re doing to innovate and improve processes, including smart technology within nursing homes, using virtual reality for anxiety treatment, and reducing post-surgery sickness rates.
The event was held on 21 March 2018 in Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey.
Gill Smith, IQI Lead, NHSCT
Guest speaker, Dr John Harden, National Clinical lead for Quality and Safety in Scotland
One of the many break out sessions at the event
Members of the NHSCT choir entertaining delegates with their Quality Improvement song
by Anita Hogg | Mar 7, 2018 | Events, News Release
MOIC Partner, Pharmacy Management, together with UKCPA will host the fifth Diabetes Medicines Optimisation conference in Manchester on Tuesday 15 May 2018. Booking for delegate places is now open and the Learning Zone will be available for anyone who wishes to present their work in the form of a Poster. Find out more and book your place here.
by Anita Hogg | Mar 1, 2018 | Events, News Release
The Clinical Leadership in Pharmacy (CLIP) programme has been launched in the North of England. The CLIP programme provides comprehensive skills training for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in both primary and secondary care, delivered in 10 modules over a period of one year. The programme has been successfully delivered in both Scotland and Ireland and has been shortlisted for an award by the Health Services Journal.
The launch meeting in the North of England will be held in York on 24 May 2018.
Find out more about CLIP online: the programme and download the brochure.
Pharmacy Management is a MOIC Partner.
by Anita Hogg | Feb 27, 2018 | Events, News Release
Mike and Geraldine (MOIC) and Stephen McComb and other representatives from Connected Health Innovation Centre, Northern Ireland (CHIC) met with Shannon Harmon, Digital Editor, Longitude Prize.
The group met to consider an application for the Longitude Prize, a £10m prize fund to develop a point of care diagnostic test for bacterial infections that will allow healthcare professionals worldwide to administer the right antibiotics at the right time. The test must be affordable, accurate, fast and easy to use.
The meeting was held on 20 February 2018 at CHIC, Ulster University, Jordanstown.
Find out more online: Longitude Prize
Main picture: Mike Scott (left) and Geraldine Conlon-Bingham (right) from MOIC pictured with Shannon Harmon, Digital Editor, Longitude Prize.
Mike Scott and Geraldine Conlon-Bingham (MOIC) with Shannon Harmon, Digital Editor, Longitude Prize and representatives from CHIC.
by Anita Hogg | Feb 27, 2018 | Events, News Release
Maureen Hetherington, Deputy Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, Northern HSC Trust, and the Vaccine Services Pharmacy Team were joint winners of the the Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year Award, together with the team from Victoria Pharmaceuticals, Belfast HSC Trust.
The Vaccine Services Team is based in the Pharmacy Department in the Mid-Ulster Hospital, Magherafelt and provides a centralised vaccine dispensing and distribution service for the whole of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust catchment area.
Dr Seamus O’Reilly, Northern Trust Executive Director of Medicine said, “I would like to congratulate the Vaccine Services Pharmacy Team and Prof Scott for their much deserved awards. They are examples of how innovation and the dedication of our staff, looking at how we do things and then improving them, are really making a difference to the care we give to our patients. Well done to those involved”.
The Northern Ireland Healthcare Awards 2018 event was held on 22 February 2018 in the Europa Hotel, Belfast.
All the winners will be featured in the forthcoming edition of Northern Ireland Healthcare Review. Pictures from the event can be viewed online: NIhealtcare.com/awards
Pictured from left: Martindale Pharma Sponsor, Kellie Donnelly (Lead Technician, Community Services, NHSCT), Yvonne Rea (Senior Pharmacist, Patient Services, NHSCT), Maureen Hetherington (Deputy Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, NHSCT), Gillian Smith (Specialist Pharmacy Technician, Vaccine Services, NHSCT) and Mike Scott (Director, MOIC and Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, NHSCT).
