Moving from cost to quality
Thursday 30th January, 2003
The Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building,  Sackville Street, Manchester

• Priorities in prescribing in the NHS
  

Dr Philip Leech, Principal Medical Officer for Primary Care, Department of Health

• Clinical Governance in medicines management & prescribing in hospitals
  

Dr Jonathan Cooke, Director of Pharmacy, South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust

• CHI review in primary care relating to quality issues in medicines management & prescribing
  

Dr Rob Queenborough, Director of Clinical Governance, Trafford North PCT

• Data capture to support quality of prescribing in primary care
  

Ms Sheila Teasdale, PRIMIS Service Director, University of Nottingham

• Medicines Management Collaborative and prescribing quality
  

Mr Richard Seal, Project Team Leader, Medicines Management Services Collaborative, NPC

• Selective COX-2 inhibitors & NSAID prescribing patterns in Ireland
  

Dr Mary Teeling, Medical Adviser, St James’s Hospital, Dublin

• Exploring GPRD prescribing data in the context of NICE guidelines – a feasibility study on the use of proton pump inhibitors
  

Dr Corinne de Vries, Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey

• Patient perspectives of cost and quality in relation to treatment with antidepressants
  

Mrs Janet Grime, Research Fellow, Keele University

• GP & PCT stakeholders’ views on the relative importance & influence of cost & quality on prescribing
  

Ms Helen Prosser, Research Fellow, University of Liverpool

• Economic evaluation of a RCT of a ‘Medication Review Clinic’ in patients receiving repeat prescriptions in a general practice setting
  

Professor Clare Mackie, Professor of Pharmaceutical Care, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

• Developing safer practices to prevent medication errors
  

Professor David Cousins, Head of Safe Medication Practices, National Patient Safety Agency