by Laura Downing | May 3, 2018 | Events, News Release
The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare is one of the world’s largest conferences for healthcare professionals committed to improving patient care and safety.
The conference is jointly organised by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and BMJ. The ambition of both organisations is to improve healthcare and outcomes for patients and communities.
Since it first took place in 1996, over 3,000 healthcare professionals choose the International Forum every year as the place to learn, connect and plan their improvement strategies every year.
Speakers from all over the world gather to discuss topics such as applied data intelligence, innovation in healthcare delivery, the importance of regularly reviewing policies, and how behaviour affects patient care.
MOIC attended to talk about the role of an innovation centre in medicines optimisation, and our knowledge transfer/hosting links with over 20 countries.
Pictured: Professor Michael Scott presenting on the role of an innovation centre.
by Laura Downing | Apr 23, 2018 | Events, News Release
Dr Geraldine Conlon-Bingham and Dr David Farren presented a poster today at ECCMID 2018 titled ‘Modelling the impact of antibiotic use and infection control on the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA).’
The conference, which is the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, is being hosted in Madrid in Spain and is run by ESCMID – Europe’s leading society in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
The world’s leading experts will join the most important congress in infectious diseases, infection control and clinical microbiology to present and discuss the latest results. The event boasts a comprehensive scientific programme with keynote lectures, symposia, oral and poster sessions as well as educational formats on parallel tracks. Thousands of industry professionals are set to attend over the course of the 3 day conference.
For more information on the conference visit http://www.eccmid.org/
MOIC has a number of antimicrobial stewardship projects ongoing – more information can be found throughout our website.
Pictured: Dr Geraldine Conlon-Bingham and Dr David Farren
by Laura Downing | Apr 18, 2018 | Events, News Release
We were delighted to host a 1 hour session today at NICON18 conference to discuss medicines optimisation, and some of the great work we’ve been doing to date. It was brilliant to see so many faces from all walks of the HSC. Several hundred attended the event.
NICON is the voice of the organisations across the integrated health and social care system and is the only membership body for all the HSC.
Pictured above, from left to right: Cathy Harrison (Department of Health NI), Laura Downing, Anita Hogg, Glenda Fleming and Michael Scott (MOIC), Ruth Miller of (WHSCT)
Pictured: Professor Michael Scott presenting.
Pictured – from left to right: Brendan Crossey (Healthcare Analytics), Cathy Harrison (Department of Health NI), Anita Hogg & Glenda Fleming (MOIC), Austin Tanney (Analytics Engines), Ruth Miller (WHSCT), Mike Scott (MOIC), Peter Corscadden (Analytics Engines)
by Laura Downing | Mar 27, 2018 | Events, News Release
Professor Michael Scott attended the 23rd Congress of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) event in Gothenburg Sweden this month to give a presentation on MOIC and our achievements to date.
The event themed ’Hospital pharmacists – show us what you can do’ was focused around dealing with the challenges of economic restrictions and increased demands in pharmacy within the hospital setting.
The largest congress for hospital pharmacy in Europe, achievements from multiple disciplines including Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology and Bioethics were showcased in the hope of influencing decision makers, multidisciplinary team members and patients to increase demand for hospital pharmacists’ full engagement in the medication process.
An estimated 1,000 professionals attended the event.
Pictured above: Michael Scott with EAHP Board members. From left to right Tony West, Joan Peppard, Michael Scott and Petr Horak
With delegate – Roisin O’Hare, Lead Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist, NI University Network at Craigavon Area Hospital
