Seamless Care……or Careless Seams – reducing medication errors at interfaces
Thursday, 9th February 2012
Imperial Hotel, Russells Square, London

Morning Session chaired by Professor Colin Bradley

• Prescribing errors at hospital interfaces

Dr Mary Tully, Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manchester University

• Communication and knowledge: main contributors to preventable drug-related hospital admissions
  

Dr Rachel Howard, Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice, Reading University

• Medication errors in care homes: from interstices to interface
  

Prof Nick Barber – Professor of the Practice of Pharmacy, UCL School of Pharmacy

• Medication errors on hospital discharge
  

Dr Lizzie Witherington, Integrated Discharge Team, Nottingham University Hospitals

• The incidence, nature and causes of prescribing and monitoring errors at general practice interfaces – GMC funded study

Dr Maisoon Ghaleb – Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice/Patient Safety, University of Hertfordshire

Afternoon session chaired by Professor Bryony Dean Franklin

• Systematic review of direct observation evidence investigating the prevalence and nature of medication administration errors

Mr Richard Keers, Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Research, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester

• The clinical significance of medicines reconciliation in children admitted to hospital
  

Mr Chi Huynh, Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research, The School of Pharmacy, University of London

• Are the benefits of pharmacy-led medicines reconciliation  greater for certain patient groups?

Ms Linda Dodds, Director, Medicines Use and Safety Division, East & SE England Specialist Pharmacy Services and PG Teacher Practitioner, Medway School of Pharmacy

• Repairing careless seams: preventing fallout between hospital and intermediate care

Mrs Dianne Bell, Non-Medical Prescribing Lead, Medicines Management Team, NHS Manchester

• Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly – an audit of elderly patients in long term care facilities

Dr Stephen Byrne, Pharmaceutical Care Research Group, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

• The implementation of sip feed contract changes in primary care
  

Mr Sean MacBride-Stewart , Prescribing and Pharmacy Support Unit, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, Scotland