Delia Fernández-Redondo and Emma Bartolomé García (both resident pharmacists, Madrid) visiting NHSCT as part of the International Centres of Excellence in Hospital Pharmacy programme, an initiative developed by the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy (SEFH). Pictured with Linden Ashfield (left) and Professor Michael Scott.
On Tuesday 9 May 2017, Pharmacy Management and UKCPA are going back to Manchester with the second annual conference on Diabetes Medicines Optimisation which has been created by the two organisations.
The Learning Zone will be available for anyone who wishes to present their work in the form of a Poster. In order to do so, please email Jenny Thompson in the first instance to register your interest and receive a pack – jenny.thompson@pharman.co.uk
Booking for delegate places at the website booking page is open with the agenda/Satellite Sessions and registration procedure.
Take the opportunity to review the excellent number of Satellite Sessions and book a place: https://www.pharman.co.uk/events/2017/5/jomo-ukcpa-national-meeting-diabetes
Those satellite presenters who presented in 2016 have been asked to update their presentations and new topics have been incorporated in the light of feedback received. Satellites for this Event:
For further information, please contact: Katie Fraser, Senior Executive Assistant Pharmacy Management, Katie.fraser@pharman.co.uk, tel: 01747 829501
JoMO-UKCPA National Meeting: Medicines Optimisation in Diabetes. Location: 9 May 2017, Midland Hotel, Manchester.
At the 18th Northern Ireland Healthcare Awards the award for Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year was won by Dr Ruth Miller and The Medicines Optimisation in Older People Team. A collaborative working partnership between pharmacy teams in the Western Trust and Northern Trust has been recognised recently for excellent practice in older people’s medicine. The teams shared the honours in the Hospital Pharmacy Team Of The Year award category at the Northern Ireland Healthcare Awards, held at the Europa Hotel, Belfast. The annual event is dedicated to celebrating those whose exceptional expertise and contribution to their profession have transformed the provision of healthcare for the better.
Since September 2015 the Western Trust and Northern Trust’s Medicines Optimisation in Older People Pharmacy Teams have worked together, refining and changing new consultant pharmacist led models of pharmaceutical care for patients living in care homes and admitted to community hospitals. The teams embraced the need to implement the new service and evaluate them as it would change the shape of how older people’s medicines management would be delivered across Northern Ireland. Based on their positive outcomes for patients, the Department of Health in Northern Ireland is now providing permanent funding for this new, innovative service to be replicated across all five trusts.
Anne Friel, Regional lead for Medicines Optimisation in Older People said:
Project Manager Dr Ruth Miller, who led the entry, noted how inspirational the team had been as they worked with other healthcare professionals to deliver a very high quality clinical pharmacy service to their patients.
Team members, Sabrina Parkhill, Rory McSorley, Nuala McGeough, Helen Graham, James Nicholl and Niamh McLister (older people specialist case management pharmacists) have expressed their delight at receiving this award saying: “The role provides immense job satisfaction. Older people can take many medicines for more than one medical condition; medicines optimisation is patient centred and ensures patients are taking the most appropriate medicines at the right time and in the right way.”
18th Northern Ireland Healthcare Awards, 23 February 2017, the Europa Hotel, Belfast
Winners of 18th Northern Ireland Healthcare Awards Revealed – 18th NIHA Press Release
Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year: Dr Ruth Miller & the Medicine’s Optimisation in Older People Team – WHSCT & NHSCT
Dr Frans van Andel, Lead in Internationalisation MOIC, met with a delegation of hospitals in Tbilisi on March 1st. Georgia is the only country in the former Soviet Union, which has fully privatised its healthcare delivery system. The organisation of pharmaceutical services poses new challenges for both Medison as well as GEO, as these services need to be set up in a more professional and service oriented manner. Accountability is a major issue.
Dr Van Andel introduced capabilities of the MOIC in general and the clinical procurement system STEPSelect during the meeting. Both healthcare providers agreed that the STEPSelect system could be a major innovative asset and they acknowledged that introducing the system would actually greatly improve the involvement of clinicians in the selection process of medicines. Collaborative projects were discussed and these will be outlined in more detail in the coming period.
From left to right: Mr Nick Urushadze, Director of Resources Medison Clinics, Dr Tengiz Tsuladze, Head of Clinical Services both of GEO Hospitals, and Dr Sophie Gasitashvili, CEO.
In the context of EIP AHA a twinning visit from a delegation from the North West Coast of England took place 20-21 February 2017. After a presentation of the MOIC mission and the status of Medicines Optimisation in Northern Ireland the delegation was introduced to a series of topics:
The meeting resulted in discussing the opportunities for further collaboration.
Left to right: Ruth Miller, Project Manager Medicines Optimisation in Older People at WHSCT & NHSCT; Andrew Durkin, Commissioning and Contract Manager (Lead for care homes), Liverpool City Council; Jonny Keville, Divisional Manager Older Peoples services, Liverpool City Council; Adrian Quinn, Commissioning Manager, Wirral Council; Andrew Cairns, Innovation agency, Lead for Medicines; Linden Ashfield, Lead for Hosting and Knowledge Transfer, MOIC; Michael Scott, Director MOIC; Ann Williams, Commissioning and Contract Manager (Lead on Innovation Network), Liverpool City Council.
A team of MOIC and Digitalis met with a delegation from the Czech Ministry of Health in Prague on February 8. The Czech team was led by Dr Alena Tomaskova, Director of the Department of Pharmacy at the Ministry. The meeting took place in the frame of an EU sponsored project to foster twinning between reference sites of the European Innovation Platform on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA).
The MOIC team and partner Digitalis introduced the concept of medicines optimisation in general and demonstrated the clinical procurement system STEPSelect. This system was co-developed in Northern Ireland and is widely used in this part of the U.K. for the selection and procurement of medicines and medical devices. The Czech Ministry would welcome a pilot with STEPSelect and is looking forward to collaborate with their Northern Irish partners.