“Pay-off for patients of person-specific data and how it can influence clinical decision-making”
Thursday 27th January, 2005
Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London

A bursary of £500, named the McGavock Bursary, was awarded at the meeting to Dr Kathleen Bennett for the best abstract received and Dr Alan Wade received £50 of book tokens for the best poster displayed.

• The National Programme for IT – One year into implementation
  

Dr Mike Bainbridge, Senior Clinical Architect, the National Programme for Information Technology (NPFit)

• Implications of NPFit for pharmacoepidemiological research

Professor Tom MacDonald, MEMO, University of Dundee

• A patient perspective
  

Ms Sue Benn, Manager, Patient Advice & Liaison Service, University College London Hospitals

• A public health perspective
  

Dr Adrian Phillips, Director of Public Health, Wolverhampton City PCT

• The new Health & Social Care Information Centre
  

Mr Dave Roberts, Manager, Prescribing Support Unit

• High use of maintenance therapy after triple therapy regimes in Ireland

Dr Kathleen Bennett, Statistician, St James’s Hospital, Dublin

• Pharmacist intervention in electronic discharge prescribing in acutely ill patients
  

Ms Anna Yortt, Medical Admissions Unit Pharmacist, Royal Free Hospital, London

• Characteristics of seletive and non-selective NSAID use in Scotland
  

Mrs Karen Alford, Research Asst. Dept Gen.Pract. & PC, University of Aberdeen

• The Northern Ireland Medicines Governance Team
  

Miss Tracey Boyce, Medicines Governance Regional Coordinator, Royal Hospitals Trust, Belfast

• Systematic review to identify the most common drug causes of preventable drug-related admissions to hospital (PDRA)
  

Ms Rachel Howard, Research Pharmacist, Nottingham Primary Care Research Partnership