Whose prescribing budget is it, anyway?
Thursday, 5th February 2009
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London

Morning Session chaired by Professor Colin Bradley

• The possible advantages of moving responsibility for managing budgets to an external organization
  

Dr Vivienne McVey, Medical Director, Assura Group

• PBC shaped prescribing incentive scheme and prescribing programmes
  

Mr Andrew Riley, Head of Medicines Management, Stoke-on-Trent PCT

• How an eMPOWERed patient can ensure they take the medication that is appropriate for their needs

Dr Amir Hannan, GP, Hyde and Ms Yvonne Bennett, an eMPOWERed patient

• The information/resources that are available on the web to empower patients
  

Mr Glen Griffiths, Chairman & CEO, Interactivehealth plc

• Wider release of prescribing data
  

Mr David Roberts, Manager, The Information Centre for Health & Social Care

Afternoon session chaired by Ms Alison Bourke

• Implementation of national dyspepsia guidelines to reduce prescribing and return patients to self care: Results from an educational intervention and prospective clinical audit in England
  

Dr Mark Connolly Global Market Access Soluctions, Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare, Switzerland

• Relationship between statin prescribing patterns and patient harm due to adverse drug reactiions using UK primary care data 1991-2006
  

Mr Henry Athiany, Reserch Student, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

• Antidepressant prescribing in pregnancy
  

Dr Irene Petersen, Senior Research Fellow, Dept of Primary Care & Populatiion Health, University College London

• Prescribing of anti-osteoporotic therapies following the use of proton pump inhibitors in general practice
  

Ms Bernie McGowan, Dept of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin

• Techniques to improve analgesic medication usage in surgical patients
  

Mr Philip Murphy, research Pharmacist/PhD Student, University College Cork/St John’s Hospital, Limerick

• Correlation between choice of treatment for high cholesterol and achievement of national cholesterol targets
  

Mr David Lloyd, Statistician, The Information Centre for Health & Social Care