by Anita Hogg | Mar 12, 2019 | Events, News Release, Press
For the 8th year running The Clinical Pharmacy Congress will welcome the pharmacy community through its doors on the 7th – 8th June 2019 at ExCeL London. We would be delighted if you would join us at these two education packed days. Your guest invite will grant you access to:
• Receive 230+ hours of educational content to get you revalidation ready for 2019!
• Expand your knowledge with the latest clinical updates across 240+ sessions, delivered by 200+ world-class speakers
• Network with the CPC community – catch up with peers, colleagues and old friends
• Grow your career prospects by networking with sector leaders
• Witness the latest innovations in clinical pharmacy and source new suppliers
CPC’s world class conference programme will be delivered across lively sessions and interactive workshops, filled with specialised content to provide you with the education you need to improve patient outcomes.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SPEAKERS LIST
The Medicines Optimisation Innovation Centre (MOIC) will be exhibiting at the conference at Stand: J10 – 2. We will be taking this opportunity to showcase our work in driving innovation in medicines use through research, innovation, quality improvement and knowledge transfer. Please visit our stand if you would like to hear more about how MOIC contributes to the development, testing, scale and spread of medicines optimisation expertise and technologies in Northern Ireland and across the world.
Limited passes remain, REGISTER NOW
We look forward to welcoming you across two education packed days, visit us at J10 in the Affiliates Lounge.
by Anita Hogg | Jan 31, 2019 | Events, News Release
MOIC is currently hosting three pharmacists from Austria, Greece and Estonia. The pharmacists are participating in a two week residential programme to experience hospital pharmacy practice in Northern Ireland.
Main picture from left: Krista Meresmaa (Hospital Pharmacist, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia), Sonja Guntschnig (Community Pharmacist, Klagenfurt, Austria) and Vasileios Antoniadis (Community Pharmacist, Ptolemaida, Greece).
The visitors are gaining direct experience and exposure to clinical pharmacy practice in a general hospital, spending time with and learning from our expert pharmacy team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, gaining experience of enabling technology developed to optimise medicines, experiencing the National Health Service and how pharmacy integrates within the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
International students in their final year of the Masters in Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice at Queen’s University Belfast have the opportunity to participate in this residential programme.
This first cohort of three pharmacists are on site from Monday 21st January to Friday 1st February 2019.
by Anita Hogg | Jan 22, 2019 | Events, News Release
MOIC, together with Wroclaw Medical University, the Polish Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy, and the Regional Specialist Hospital in Wroclaw Research and Development Centre, have brought together a range of speakers from across Europe for an exciting conference to explore the role of Pharmacists in the ward Team. Keynote speakers, plenary sessions and parallel sessions will focus on developments and best practice in ward Pharmacy.
The aim of the conference is to share learning and experiences on optimising patient care from successful ward pharmacist models, including the award winning Northern Ireland model, stimulate development and implementation of similar models locally and build collaborations and networks.
It is intended that the conference will inform, motivate, excite and inspire further service improvement, research and innovation in medicines use in Poland and across Europe.
This two-day conference will be held in Wroclaw University, Poland, on 7 & 8th March 2019.
Visit the conference website to find out more and view the preliminary programme.
by Anita Hogg | Jan 22, 2019 | Events, News Release
Thursday 14 March 2019 sees the annual JoMO-UKCPA Workshop for Respiratory
Medicines Optimisation taking place once again in Birmingham.
The programme has been devised in cooperation with the UKCPA Specialist Respiratory
Group and will reflect the latest practice and developments in respiratory medicines
optimisation.
As in previous years, the meeting is available at no cost to all pharmacists and pharmacy
technicians across the UK.
Chief Executive of Pharmacy Management, John Stanley, remarked “This is the third year
that we have produced this conference with UKCPA and we are privileged to have so
many top-class pharmacists delivering satellite sessions. In 2018 we had a significant
increase on numbers to the previous year and we fully expect that trend to continue.”
Book a place here
by Anita Hogg | Dec 8, 2018 | Events, News Release
The Northern Trust held its annual Chairman’s Awards at the Tullyglass Hotel in Ballymena in December to celebrate the success of dedicated teams and individual staff.
The Regional Prescribing Support Pharmacy Service was the overall winner in the Partnership Award Category and the IMPACT Agewell (Involving Care to Prescribe Alternative Care Together) Team was Runner-up in the Integrated Services Award Category.
The Regional Prescribing Support Pharmacy Service Team – overall winner in the Partnership Award Category
The IMPACT Agewell Team – Runner-up in the Integrated Services Award Category
Mike Scott (Director, MOIC) with members of the IMPACT Agewell team
The awards recognise and reward colleagues who work to deliver high quality, effective and innovative services for the benefit of service users. There are six award categories which are based on the Trust Vision and are underpinned by the CORE Values.
Bob McCann, Chairman of the Northern Trust said: “We are delighted that we have received so many applications, 111 entries in total which shows just some of the great work being done across the Trust.
“During the judging process it was great to read such positive stories about the pioneering, innovative work that is taking place across the Trust”.
The awards were presented by Marie Roulston, Director of Social Care and Children, Health and Social Care Board.
by Anita Hogg | Oct 25, 2018 | Events, News Release
Prof Mike Scott (Director, MOIC) launched the new MOIC animation during his presentation at the 47th ESCP Symposium held at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, 24-26 October 2018. The animation, introduced by Seamus O’Reilly (Executive Medical Director, NHSCT), raises awareness of the important role of the Hospital Pharmacy Team and illustrates how healthcare professionals work together to help patients achieve maximum benefit from their medicines and minimise harm.
Prof Mike Scott speaking at the ESCP Symposium
Prof Mike Scott with Magdalena Kuzelova from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia
From left: Prof James McElnay (School of Pharmacy QUB), Prof Sir Munir Pirmohamed (NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics), Prof Michael Tunney (School of Pharmacy, QUB) and Prof Carmel Hughes (School of Pharmacy, QUB)
Kamila Urbanczech (Clinical Pharmacist, Regional Specialist Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland) at the MOIC stand at ESCP. Kamila spent 3 months at MOIC as part of the hosting programme from May-July 2017
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