9.00am | Arrival, Registration, Coffee & Tea | |
9.45am | Chairman’s welcome & introduction | Allan Karr, Chairman, Margaret Dolan, Vice Chairman, PDIG |
10.00am | How would you contract for branded medicines? - What are the benefits and problems?
- What are the processes involved and the roles of pharmacists?
- Can contracting be standardised across the UK?
- What has been the Pharma Industry response?
| Peter Sharott Chairman, PMSG
Presentation |
10.45am | PharmaQC - What methods are used to check quality during the contracting process?
- Quality versus Price?
- Can Industry win more contracts with better quality products?
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Richard Bateman QA Specialist Pharmacist Guy's and St.Thomas’s Hospitals
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11.20am | Tea/Coffee |
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11.50pm | Is Community pharmacy going to take over
hospital pharmacy? · What are the benefits of using a community pharmacy
to dispense to Out-patients? · What difficulties will community pharmacists face? · How will community pharmacy based out-patients impact on existing supply arrangements? · What are the contracting issues? | Tania Carruthers Clinical Director of Pharmacy & Evelyn Magambo Deputy director of pharmacy, Heart of England NHS Trust Nanette Kerr, Alliance Pharmacy Howard Stokoe, Principal Pharmacist, PaSA |
1.00pm | Lunch |
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2.10am | Consensus Statements on Procurement · FIP Global Conference report and how it will be used. · Importance to pharmacists | Roger Tredree Visiting Professor, Kingston University |
2.40pm | Advances in IV fluid distribution - PDIG Award · What are the problems with IV fluid distribution? · Can track and trace devices assist in managing IV fluid distribution? · What are the pro’s and con’s of using RFID? | Rod Beard Principal Pharmacist, Sunderland Royal Hospital |
3.10pm | Sustainable Pharmacy - Procuring the future? - How is the NHS implementing the sustainability agenda? Can it be applied?
- How is the Pharma Industry managing? Will it affect prices?
| David Wathey, Head Of Sustainable Development, PaSA |
3.40pm | DM&D Coding – How will it affect you? · What is DM&D coding? · Why are codes so important? | Howard Stokoe, Principal Pharmacist, PaSA |
4.00pm | Summary and close | Allan Karr, Chairman |