by Anita Hogg | Nov 3, 2017 | Events, News Release
At the Leaders in Healthcare 2017 Conference in Liverpool Anita Hogg presented the poster ‘Medicines Optimisation – Role of an Innovation Centre’. The MOIC video was shown at the event and featured as a video poster on the Leaders in Healthcare YouTube channel.
The theme of the event was ‘Developing Leaders, building networks, inspiring innovation’ and focused on helping aspiring leaders and those already in leadership positions to develop and improve their skills, make connections with like-minded people and get inspired by leaders from both healthcare and industry.
Thousands of delegates attended the event and more than 170 projects were presented during the conference, showcasing the latest knowledge and solutions to support the future of healthcare leadership and management.
Location: Leaders in Healthcare 2017 Conference, 31 October – 1 November, Arena and Convention Centre (ACC), Liverpool. More information: Leaders in Healthcare 2017.
by Anita Hogg | Sep 25, 2017 | Events, News Release
Linden Ashfield (Lead for Hosting and Knowledge Trasfer MOIC) represented MOIC at the 8th National Hospital Pharmacy Forum. Ashfield delivered a presentation on ‘Medicines Optimisation: A Journey Up North’.
Location: Barberstown Castle, County Kildare, Ireland. Saturday 23 September 2017.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Sep 14, 2017 | Events, News Release
On Tuesday 5 September 2017 the NHSCT hosted a visit from members of the Health Improvement Alliance Europe (HIAE). The Trust joined the Alliance in September 2016 under the facilitation of the internationally recognised Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI mission is ‘to improve health and healthcare worldwide’, through a strategy of accelerating the pace of improvement in healthcare and innovating and partnering with organisations and communities to improve health. Along with our European partners we are looking to collaborative ways in which we can address the challenges of:
- An ageing population;
- An increase in the number of patients with chronic diseases; and
- An escalation in healthcare costs.
Members meet through virtual networks monthly and every three months in person. Northern Ireland hosted the most recent meeting, and in the Alliance spirit of ‘all share, all learn’, members had the opportunity to visit health and social care sites in Northern Ireland. We were delighted to host the Alliance in our Innovation and Education Centre in Antrim to share the work being taken forward by the regional Medicines Optimisation and Innovation Centre (MOIC).
More information on the website IHI Health Improvement Alliance Europe
Picture, from left: Michael Scott, Glenda Fleming, Gill Smith (Innovation and Quality Improvement Lead, NHSCT) with the Health Improvement Alliance Europe visitors.
From left: Cathy Harrison, Michael Scott, Glenda Fleming and Gill Smith (Innovation and Quality Improvement Lead, NHSCT).
From left: Michael Scott (Director, MOIC), Anita Hogg (Lead for Pharmaceutical Clinical Effectiveness, MOIC), Rob Brenninkmeijer (Director, Digitalis), Glenda Fleming (Deputy Director, MOIC), and Frans van Andel (Lead for Internationalisation, MOIC).
From left: Cathy Harrison, Michael Scott, Julie-Ann Walkden (SBRI Executive at Business Services Organisation), and Glenda Fleming.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Aug 31, 2017 | Events, News Release
Anita Hogg (Lead for PCE at MOIC, Principal Pharmacist, NHSCT) represented MOIC at the annual National Forum for Scotland in Dunblane on 30 August. She showcased examples of projects and technologies in the Learning Zone. The Forum was organised by Pharmacy Management, a MOIC Partner.
National Forum for Scotland, Dunblane, 30 August.
Anita Hogg represented MOIC at the Forum and showcased examples of projects and technologies in the Learning Zone.
Audrey Campbell (Principal Pharmacy Technician, NHS Highland), and Cathryn Park, (Lead Clinical Pharmacist, NHS Borders).
Philip Newland-Jones (Consultant Pharmacist Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust).
Marie Livingston (Director of Pharmacy), Stacey Anderson (Pharmacy Services Development and Improvement Manager), and Elizabeth Kemp (Principal Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical Services), all NHS Grampian.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Aug 12, 2017 | Events, News Release
Professor Michael Scott (Director, MOIC) attended an expert group meeting at the World Health Organization in Geneva on 10 and 11 August 2017. The purpose of the meeting was to finalise and review the three technical reports on polypharmacy, transitions of care and high-risk situations / medications.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Jul 13, 2017 | Events, News Release
Frans van Andel and Anita Hogg from MOIC and Rob Brenninkmeijer (Digitalis) facilitated a seminar at the WHO Country Office in Kiev, Ukraine on 7 July 2017. The seminar included an introduction to MOIC, discussion on optimising medicines selection and an interactive demonstration of STEPSelect. The meeting was attended by over 20 representatives from WHO, the Ministry of Health Ukraine, UNICEF Ukraine, UNDP Ukraine, and Crown Agents. Among others:
Alina Yurova (Health Project Manager and PoC for the Pharmaceutical Management – USAID / Ukraine Health Office).
UNICEF Ukraine: Giovanne Barberis (UNICEF Representative in Ukraine), Kateryna Bulavinova (UNICEF Ukraine health expert), Susanna Lehtimaki (Healt & Nutrition Specialist), and Valeria Markova (Procurement Officer).
Ministry of Health – Crown Agents: Christine Jackson (Project Director / Procurement Support), and Tetiana Korotchenko (Procurement Support).
UNDP Ukraine: Jan Thomas Hiemstra (UNDP Country Director), Natalya Lukyanova (HIV and Health Procurement Reform Specialist / PhD), Oleksandr Koval (Procurement and Logistics Associate), Anastasia Boiko (Strategic Communications Officer), Zafar Yuldoshev (Project Coordinator), and Katerina Ribalchenko (Policy Officer Social and Economic Development).
State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine: Tetiana Dumenko (Director of the State Enterprise State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine), and Dmytro Aleshko (State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine)
Ministry of Health of Ukraine: Professor Oleksandra Oleshchuk (Head of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology Department), Tetyana Coba (Minister’s Advisor in Procurement), Taras Liaskovski (Head of the Pharmacy Department), Natalia Gutsal (Head of the Department of Management and Registration of Medical and Immunobiological Medicines), Marriana Hladkevych (Deputy Minister Ilyk’s Chief of Staff), and Oleksandr Hrinchenko (Head of the sector of the formation of the state policy in the field of quality of medicinal products management of pharmaceutical activity and quality of pharmaceutical products).
Location: Seminar ‘Rational Medicines Selection in Ukraine on STEPSelect Programme’, Friday 7 July, WHO Office Kiev, Ukraine.
