by Laura Downing | Jul 3, 2018 | Events, News Release
The joint UKCPA / Journal of Medicines Optimisation conference will be held this year in London on Tuesday 2 October 2018.
Previously held in the East Midlands, the event has a further two additional UKCPA Specialist Interest groups involved for 2018. In addition to the UKCPA cardiac speciality, heart failure and education and training groups will combine to deliver high quality Satellite Sessions.
The venue for the meeting in London will be the Radisson Blu at Portman Square, which has excellent meeting rooms and a brilliant central area for this years Learning Zone.
Further details of the conference, which is available free of charge for NHS Pharmacists, and a link to register can be found on the Pharmacy Management website: www.pharman.co.uk/events/2018/10/jomo-ukcpa-medicines-optimisation-meetingcardiovascular-2
by Laura Downing | Jun 22, 2018 | Events, News Release
The Clinical Leadership in Pharmacy programme (CLIP) offers pharmacy professionals an exciting opportunity to enhance their effectiveness within current and future roles. The programme includes a broad suite of leadership training events aimed at transforming delegates’ leadership capabilities, through the development of appropriate skills and behaviours.
20 pharmacists and 1 pharmacy technician from across Ireland have now completed the programme and were presented with their certificates on Thursday 21st June.
The programme presented various leadership models and tools through interactive workshops and provided the opportunity to share experiences with colleagues from across Ireland. Many networking opportunities have already been realised as a result of contact made during the programme.
Pictured – pharmacists from the Northern Health & Social Care Trust and MOIC.
by Laura Downing | Jun 13, 2018 | Events, News Release
Pharmacy Management and the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) are excited to announce a new joint conference, Pharmacy Together, which will provide the pharmacy profession with a new event which promises to deliver exceptional quality education and skills development for both primary and secondary care pharmacists, bringing the sectors together to improve patient care.
Pharmacy Management and UKCPA have a successful history in working together to deliver high quality accessible national events for pharmacists working to improve medicines optimisation in the areas of Respiratory, Diabetes and Cardiovascular. The combination of the flagship annual conferences of each organisation builds on this success to enable a joining of their unique skills and experiences to deliver an exceptional event for the pharmacy profession and its partners.
The Pharmacy Together conference will offer an opportunity for pharmacists from all points on the patient pathway and professional colleagues within industry to attend an event which will enable and facilitate knowledge exchange and professional development for practitioners from primary and secondary care working across several areas of practice.
The best of both organisations will be reflected in the expert-led interactive worksessions, networking opportunities and poster displays.
Pharmacy Together will be held on Friday 2 November 2018 at the Novotel London West, and will be free for practitioners to attend.
Details of the programme will be announced in June and registrations will be open from July.
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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)
