“Target Driven Medicine – is this the end of prescribing freedom?”
Thursday 7th February, 2008.
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London
The morning session was chaired by Professor Stephen Chapman
Mr Alex Scharaschkin, Manager Health VFM Audit, National Audit Office
Mr Simon Perrett, Economist, The Office of Fair Trading
Mr David Fisher, Commercial Director ABPI
Professor Joe Collier, Emeritus Professor of Medicines Policy, St George’s Medical School, London
Dr Richard Smith, Director, Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative
The afternoon session was chaired by Professor Colin Bradley
Ms Cristin Ryan, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork
Mr Rod Beard, Principal Pharmacist, Sunderland Royal Hospital
- “Randomised controlled trial of supervised patient self-testing of warfarin therapy using an internet based expert system”
Ms Fiona Ryan, PhD Student, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork
Dr Kathleen Bennett, Statistician, Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
- “A quantitative five-year analysis of prescriptions for ‘lifestyle’ drugs in northeast England, 2002-2007”
Mr William Horsley, Lead Pharmacist – Medicines Management, Regional Drug & Therapeutics Centre
Ms Paula Thompson, Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research, School of Pharmacy, London