“Capturing Health Gain – Do we need a bigger net or smaller mesh?”
Thursday 18th January, 2007
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London

• “A Rose by any other name”
  

Professor Ian Graham, Head of Dept of Cardiology, Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Dublin

• “The case for targeting ‘At Risk’ Groups”
  

Professor Dennis Johnston, Head of Dept of Therapeutics & Pharmacology, Queen’s University, Belfast

• “Capturing health gain with the QoF: do we have the best approach for cardiovascular disease?”
  

Dr Jonathan Mant, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Birmingham University

• “General Practice performance in the first years of the pay-for-performance programme. Good clinical practice or gaming?”
  

Dr Tim Doran, Clinical Research Fellow NPC R&D Centre, University of Manchester

• “Developing Informed and Empowered Patients”
  

Ms Catherine Wilson, Expert Patient Programme

• “An Evaluation of a Specialist Nurse Prescriber on Diabetes In-Patient Service Delivery”

Prof Molly Courtenay, Professor of Prescribing and Medicines Management, Reading University

• “The effect of quality incentives in general practice: Observations on prescribing patterns using the defined daily dose method”
  

Mr Sean MacBride-Stewart, Acting Formulary Pharmacist, NHS Lothian

• “Design specification for NHS IT systems to minimize risk of harm to patients from medications”
  

Dr Rachel Howard, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Reading

• “Impact of availability of over-the-counter chloramphenicol eye drops on the prescribing of chloramphenicol eye preparations”
  

Mr Teerapon Dhippayom, PhD student, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University

• “The effect of prescribing feedback on generic substitution”
  

Ms Corina Naughton, Research Co-ordinator, Dept Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Trinity College Dublin

• “An evaluation of nurse prescribing across Trent Strategic Health Authority”
  

Ms Lorraine Wright, Education Development Manager- Advanced Practice Trent Multi-Professional Deanery