IT Interest Group Seminar

Ramada Jarvis Hotel

Leicester

Friday 8/2/02

Programme

09.45             Welcome & Introduction

09.50             Overview of EPR & electronic prescribing

                 Don Hughes, Chief Pharmacist, Countess of Chester 

 10.35             Coffee & Exhibition

 11.15             EPR and EP - The Hope Hospital best of breed experience

                 Steve Freeborn, Chief Pharmacist &

Neil Kirby, EPR Pharmacist, Salford Royal Hospitals

 12.15  Parallel Sessions

·         Trials and tribulations of electronic discharge prescribing

Chris Cairns, Chief Pharmacist, Lewisham Hospital

·         In the palm of your hand!  Palm-top devices

Jonathan Kay, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals

Nick de Pennington, Oxford Handhelds

·         Harnessing and Utilising Technology – The Barts Experience

Charles Tugwell, Principal Pharmacist, Barts & London

·         Automation: Practice & pitfalls

Geoff Phipps and David Ledger, Dudley Group of Hospitals

13.15  Lunch & Exhibition

14.30  Feedback from parallel sessions

15.30  Comfort Break

15.40  Medication errors & IT

Gillian Cavell, Associate Director of Pharmacy, Kings College Hospitals