IT Interest Group Seminar

‘Are We NP Fit?’:

How Pharmacy departments are meeting the current challenges of IT

Warwick Hilton Hotel

Wednesday 28^th April 2004

Programme

09:30                   Registration, Coffee & Tea.

10.00                   Welcome & Introduction

Graeme Richardson (Chair, GHP ITIG)

10.15                        Sean Brennan (NHS Consultant, Clinical Matrix)

Summary of recent initiatives - EPR [now ‘NHS Care Records Service’], ETP, etc. - and the role of Pharmacy.

11:00         Michele Caldwell (Director of Pharmacy, Ayr & Arran Hospitals NHS Trust)

Experience with electronic prescribing using the JAC system.

12.30         Lunch & Exhibition

13.45                        First DataBank Europe Information Technology Award

·         Robin Glasspoole (Product Manager, First DataBank Europe)

Presentation of 2004 award & details of 2005 award.

·         Alex Jennings (Clinical Pharmacist Elderly Medicine, Pharmacy Department, University Hospital Aintree)

Effective Electronic Transfer of Discharge Prescription Pilot.

14.30                   Steve Freeborn (Director of Clinical Development, ASC Computer Software)

                   How are Pharmacy software suppliers supporting innovation?

15.15                   Comfort Break

15.30                        Don Hughes (Director of Pharmacy, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust)

Integrating Pharmacy systems and services with electronic patient records.

16.15                   Summary & Close