Clinical Pharmacy Congress Bulletin - Oct 2014

CPC Steering Group Launched SEE PAGE 3

2014 Floor Plan and Exhibitor List

Integrated Health and Social Care

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October 2013

THE BEST OF CLINICAL PHARMACY AWARDS The Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC) is delighted to announce the introduction of four exciting awards to be presented at the event next April during the Friday evening networking drinks.

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress Innovation Exchange The Clinical Pharmacy Congress is delighted to announce another new feature for 2014.

How you can enter: Visit CPC website at www.pharmacycongress.co.uk/awards where you will find more information, entry forms, guidance and criteria.

You may apply your own work or nominate other organisations/ individuals for the awards and entries must be submitted no later than midnight on 10th January 2014 to l.shapiro@ closerstillmedia.com.

The awards will look to celebrate and acknowledge outstanding achievements in pharmacy and promote successful individuals and teams within the pharmacy profession. We are delighted to be able to recognise all sectors of clinical pharmacy through these awards which are open to any qualified pharmacy professional irrespective of career level.

The four awards presented at next year’s Congress will be:

Clinical Pharmacist of the Year

We are looking for an outstanding pharmacist who has made a significant contribution to clinical pharmacy in the UK. This could be a career long contribution or a single initiative that has had a major impact in recent times. The nominee can work in any clinical area and any sector of the profession.

Chief Pharmacist of the Year

We are looking for an outstanding chief pharmacist who has made a significant contribution to pharmacy leadership in the UK. This could be a career long contribution or a single initiative that has had a major impact in recent times. The nominee can work in any clinical area and any sector of the profession.

Clinical Pharmacy Technician of the Year

We are looking for an outstanding pharmacy technician who has made a significant contribution to clinical pharmacy in the UK. This could be a career long contribution or a single initiative that has had a major impact in recent times. The nominee can work in any clinical area and any sector of the profession.

An independent judging panel will be convened and will meet at the end of January 2014 to assess the applications and judge the awards. Shortlists for Clinical Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Technician and Chief Pharmacist of the Year will be announced in March and the winners will be announced at The Clinical Pharmacy Congress. All those shortlisted will be expected to attend.

The Innovation Exchange is a new mini-lecture theatre on the Congress floor where delegates can share best practice and innovation.

Applicants shortlisted for the Clinical Pharmacy Innovation award will be announced in March and those shortlisted will be invited to present a 20 minute session in the New Innovation Exchange (see right) at the Congress on Friday 25th in front of the judging panel.

This is an excellent opportunity for delegates to share and distribute innovative projects being undertaken at local level.

The judges will be looking for how the person or project promotes clinical pharmacy to the wider healthcare community; projects could include innovations, initiatives, research or clinical pharmacy roles. They can be patient facing or part of a whole service and could describe how they support education and/or workforce development including how their role or project is advancing patient and public involvement in clinical pharmacy.

The innovation, initiative or research does not need to be brand new and ideally submissions should include outcome data or data demonstrating impact. Examples of cross sector or multidisciplinary working are particularly welcomed.

Submissions must be no more than 500 words and the winner will receive an educational grant to attend one of the two European pharmacy Congresses.

Each education partner has been allocated one slot for either individual poster competition winners from conferences and/or research grant awardees.

Entries must be made in word format and be no longer than 250 words. They should include up to two images or charts and must be included within the word document. Successful applicants will have these abstracts reproduced in the pre-Congress delegate newspaper and promoted in advance to encourage an audience.

Entries should be sent to Laura at l.shapiro@closerstillmedia.com by the 10th January 2014 and include: full name, post-nominal (e.g. MPharm or MRPharmS), job title, place of work and the title of presentation plus relevant contact details.

Entries will be advised if they have been successful by the end of February so they have adequate time to prepare.

We look forward to receiving your entries, and recognising the excellent work that you do.

All successful entries will be expected to attend The Clinical Pharmacy Congress on the 25th & 26th April 2014.

Good luck.

Good luck.

Clinical Pharmacy Innovation of the Year

We are looking for an outstanding innovation that has made a significant contribution to clinical pharmacy in the UK in the past two years. The nomination can be in any clinical area and any sector of the profession. This award can be applied for by a team or an individual. Applications are welcome from pharmacists and/or pharmacy technicians and short listed candidates will be expected to make a fifteen minute presentation on Friday 25th April at The Congress.

Education partners:

For more information on these exciting awards, whether to enter or sponsor, please call Laura Shapiro on 02476 719681, or email l.shapiro@closerstillmedia.com

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress is delighted to announce new partnerships with The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists, Ophthalmic Pharmacy Group and Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group.

Conference partners: UK Renal Pharmacy Group

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The Care Quality Commission – Paris competition The Views of a Chief Pharmacist winner

By David Branford, Chief Pharmacist for Derbyshire Mental Health Trust medicines make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care and that every organisation should appoint a senior pharmacist with responsibility for that. That person is generally the Chief Pharmacist.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed a new chief inspector of hospitals, Sir Mike Richards. Hospitals will be subject to “radical changes” in the way they are inspected from the end of August 2013. I hope that a key part of such an inspection would be not only that medicines are being used safely and effectively but all the systems that should be in place to provide confidence in the good governance of medicines are working well.

I still subscribe to the view expressed in the Audit Commission report in 2001 (‘A Spoonful of Sugar’) that ‘Medicines Management’ (this term has now been superseded by medicines optimisation) encompasses the entire way that medicines are selected, procured, delivered, prescribed, administered and reviewed to optimise the contribution that

In order to do that, the CQC will need to appoint pharmacist inspectors who are familiar with all aspects of medicines optimisation in hospitals, and who were experienced enough to decide whether or not the hospital pharmacy department is providing leadership, not only for medicines across the whole trust but also in the systems that are in place for the transfer of information between care providers.

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The importance of gathering leaders

By Catherine Duggan, Director of Professional Development and Support, Royal Pharmaceutical Society The importance of gathering leaders together to discuss important issues of the day is a known method of support and peer mentoring as well as a forum for gathering best practice. The Clinical Congress offered a positive opportunity to do just that. The issue of importance was the Francis report and the ramifications for pharmacy services and pharmacy teams.

The forum offered an opportunity to discuss professionally challenging issues, where care was known to be poor and had failed patients and the lessons that needed to be learnt, alongside the leadership qualities required.

The discussions resulted in sharing plans and sharing information. All attendees gave their email addresses and started a discussion forum through an informal email network. There, shared experiences, professional challenges on the ground and best practice were easily accessed. Most importantly, the opportunity to share challenges between leaders, who often find themselves in isolated and tricky situations cannot be underestimated.

Dr Catherine Duggan will be hosting ‘A year on from the Francis Report’ in the Leaders Forum in 2014.

Alexandra and friend enjoy their trip to Paris In 2013, The Congress ran a postcard competition whereby delegates had to visit a number of exhibiting stands, and answer the relevant question(s) correctly before putting the card into the draw for a trip for two to Paris. The lucky winner this year was Alexandra Cain, an Advanced Specialist Pharmacist at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). Below she tells us her experience at The Congress: “Attending the Clinical Pharmacy Congress was a brilliant opportunity to learn about current trends, not only in pharmacy but the wider healthcare economy. The revision sessions on cardiology were also very useful, as we all get a little rusty after a while, especially those of us who work in specialist areas such as mental health! It also meant the chance to catch up with old colleagues, and network with pharmacists and technicians from different organisations, contacts I’ll hopefully maintain for some time.

Taking part in the Paris competition meant I visited stalls that I may otherwise not have, because they weren’t related to my daily practice. Learning about some of the technological innovations in other areas of pharmacy was really interesting.

Winning the trip was really the icing on the cake at the end of a fantastic day!”

If you are exhibiting at 2014 Congress and want to be part of the Postcard Competition for delegates, please call Laura Shapiro on 02476 719681.

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress become Agency Recognition and Training Scheme members With the vast growth that The Clinical Pharmacy Congress is experiencing in terms of exhibiting companies wanting to be part of the event, as well as the number of delegates, staff at CloserStill Media Healthcare Ltd (organisers of The Congress) recently attended the necessary training in order to better understand the complexities that pharmaceutical professionals must adhere to, and ensure we maintain the high standards and commitment to the industry demanded by the ABPI. This has resulted in CloserStill Media becoming a member of the Agency Recognition and Training Scheme (ARTS).

ARTS UK provides specific support on the UK’s Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Code of Practice.

ARTS EU membership expands the support and training to all national Codes throughout Europe and is designed especially to support all kinds of agencies that provide services to pharmaceutical companies.

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Commitment to compliance with the ABPI Code of Practice and awareness of wider regulations Adherence to client contracts stipulating routine employee training (clause 16.1)

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Becoming members of the ARTS means that CPC, along with a number of other events organised by CloserStill Media Healthcare and CloserStill Media Medical Ltd, will have access to consultants who are fully trained on the guidelines as set by the ABPI and can help shape any planned activity over the two days of Congress and ensure ABPI guidelines are adhered to.

CloserStill’s continuing commitment to supporting the exhibiting needs of pharmaceutical clients helps strengthen working relationships and also allows The Congress to continue providing NHS hospitals with educational grants for the event - a place where delegates not only come to enhance their clinical knowledge, but also research and source new products, services, technologies and medicines from all the companies exhibiting on the show floor.

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CPC Steering Group 2014 sees the launch of a steering group for The Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC) with the main purpose being to gain a deeper understanding of the clinical pharmacy market via representation from all levels of seniority within the industry.

In 2014, the steering group will continue with the advanced and refresher session break down and these speakers have already been confirmed to present in the specialist areas for 2014.

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NAME Anna Murphy

Respiratory

Consultant Respiratory Pharmacist, Cardio-respiratory directorate, University of Leicester NHS Trust

Duncan McRobbie

Cardiovascular

Associate Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Gastroenterology Care homes and supporting safer medicines

Lead Pharmacis, Haemato-Oncology, The Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Jacky Turner

Oncology

The steering group has representation from across the clinical pharmacy spectrum ensuring key stakeholders within secondary healthcare are represented.

The steering group is not the sole advisory group but a working group, which provides a level of quality to the content at CPC. The organisers will continue to work with each specialist interest group in turn to ensure that the content is designed with the pharmacy professional in mind and to drive forwards the motto that CPC is ‘the home of clinical pharmacy’.

Lelly Oboh Consultant Pharmacist, Care of Older People, Guys & St Thomas Community Health Services

Man-Chie Chow

Haematology

With this vital insight, it will give you, the delegate, a far better experience whilst at CPC going forwards. As a result, the educational and workshop content will be of even higher quality and relevance to your day-to-day practices.

The members of the steering group have both authority and credibility within clinical pharmacy; therefore, attention will be given to the entire planning process.

Anja St. Clair Jones Lead pharmacist Digestive Diseases Centre, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Macmillan Principal Pharmacist Oncology & Haematology, Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust and Lead for South East London Cancer Network

Aisling Considine

Hepatology

Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Liver & Private Patient Services, Kings College Hospital

Cognitive behavioural therapy Clinical Leadership @ Moorfeilds programme Self-management of chronic pain Investigational Drug Services (IDS) PGY1 Residency Rotation, Temple University Hospital Interstitial lung disease Chief Pharmaceutical Officer address

Dan White Senior Clinical Pharmacist, BABCP CBT Psychotherapist, Honorary Member Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford Mildred Johnson Principal Pharmacist - Clinical Services Manager, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Roger Knaggs Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Nottingham University Hospital

Jennifer L. Colon Pharmacy Clinical Specialist-Investigational Drug Services, Temple University Hospital

Lloyd Mayers Pharmacist – Respiratory & ILD, North Bristol NHS Trust

Claire Howard Deputy CPhO, NHS England

Tina Hawkins

Rheumatology

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Rheumatology, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

STEERING GROUP PROFILES CHRIS CUTTS Chris graduated from Sunderland in 1990.

After early career work at York District Hospital, Chris specialised as Paediatric and Neonatal Pharmacist at the Children’s Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary. Chris left Leicester to work in Australia as a lecturer at the University of Queensland and develop an education programme with GPs in rural Queensland. He completed his Doctorate investigating influences on GP prescribing and their value to social marketing techniques. He returned to the UK to become Head of Medicines Management at St Helens PCT in 2002.

Chris completed his MBA in 2010 at the Lancaster University.

He is currently a member of the Modernising Pharmacy Careers Programme Board and several other national educational committees.

ELLEN WILLIAMS Ellen Williams is the South West regional training lead responsible for the provision and development of post registration pharmacy technician training programmes, including Medicines Management and Final Accuracy Checking, along with Pre and In-Process Checking for Aseptic Services staff.

Recent project lead ventures include the development of a national framework for the assessment of Medicines Management Skills; and the South West Product Approval pilot project. The latter addressing the training and assessment needs of pharmacists in Technical Services responsible for the approval and release of products under section 10 exemption and exploring the suitability of

pharmacy technicians to undertake this role.

Ellen is an active member of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and currently holds the post of co-editor of the APTUK journal.

HEIDI WRIGHT Heidi Wright is a registered pharmacist and has worked across different sectors of pharmacy. Heidi joined the RPSGB in 2005 as Head of Quality Improvement moving to Head of Practice and is now Practice and Policy lead for England at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. She has led the development of guidance in key areas such as Transfer of Care and Medicines Optimisation.

Previously she was Assistant Director for NPC plus and authored the ‘Good practice guidance to the management of controlled drugs in primary care.’ Heidi was integral to the development of the Essex Practice Development unit for Community Pharmacy and has worked both in community pharmacy and primary care.

HELEN WILLIAMS Working for a number of CCGs and acute trusts across South London, Helen is involved in a wide range of activities including developing pharmacist-led clinics in primary care to manage hypertension and hyperlipidaemia, contributing to the NHS Health Checks roll-out and providing education and support to HCPs involved in the management of CV disease.

Helen chairs the local cardiovascular pharmacy working group, which develops consensus guidance for use

across primary and secondary care. Much of the past 18 months has been spent looking at improving the uptake of anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation, and considering the place of novel oral.

Helen has worked with NICE on clinical guidelines for PostMI Secondary Prevention, Familial Hyperlipidaemia, Acute Chest Pain, Hypertension and the Commissioning Guide for Cardiac Rehabilitation.

Helen is a committee member for the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association, a spokesperson for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on issues relating to cardiovascular medicines, an editorial board member for a number of journals and has published widely in the pharmacy and medical literature.

ROGER KNAGGS After graduating, Roger completed his preregistration training in the pharmaceutical industry and hospital pharmacy. He originally came to Nottingham to study for a doctorate in opioid pharmacology where his interest in pain management began.

For nearly ten years, his main role was to provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Anaesthetics directorate and the Pain Management Service and also has Trust-wide responsibility for handling and administration of Controlled Drugs, including opioids. In September 2011, he was appointed a new academic position that provides teaching and research opportunities whilst maintaining regular clinical practice.

Roger was instrumental in the development of PAIN (Pharmacist Analgesia Interest Network) and is chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association Pain Management Group. He was co-opted to the Council of The British Pain Society for several years before becoming and elected Council Member in 2011.

If you are interested in joining the steering group, or have a suggestion for 2014, please email l.shapiro@closerstillmedia.com

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The College of Mental Health Pharmacy

By Stephen Bleakley, Director, College of Mental Health Pharmacy The College of Mental Health Pharmacy exists to support pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in mental health services. Mental health is an extremely rewarding field where there are no precise blood tests or scans to confirm diagnosis but instead symptomology, experience and sometimes dogged persistence form the basis of therapy.

Pharmacy staff are essential and well recognised team members who focus on safe, effective and appropriate medicines use. The College supports this role by providing educational conferences, bursaries, website and email resources and a pathway for accreditation. Behind the scenes the College responds to NICE guidelines, is helping to shape undergraduate pharmacy education and works jointly with the Royal College of Psychiatry. This year is an exciting year for us as we develop our partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to become a specialist faculty and help extend credentialing to all levels of pharmacists.

Other recent developments in mental health include: • The Royal College of Psychiatrist’s parity of esteem report (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/achievingparity-of-esteem-between-mental-and-physical-health) which calls on the government to close the gap between physical and mental health services.

• And the release of the Winterbourne view report (https:// www.gov.uk/government/publications/winterbourne-viewhospital-department-of-health-review-and-response) into the shocking abuse of service users with challenging behaviour. Pharmacists are highlighted in this report to help ensure antipsychotics and antidepressants are appropriate and regularly reviewed.

On the front line, similar to our colleagues in physical health, mental health pharmacy teams are busy ensuring medicines reconciliation is complete and helping trusts meet CQC and

About CMHP The College of Mental Health Pharmacy was formed in 2010 by the merger of the United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group (UKPPG) and the College of Mental Health Pharmacists. The formal merger in 2010 created a single organisation that can focus on education, accreditation and research in the practice of mental health pharmacy.

The College of Mental Health Pharmacy aims to ensure the best treatment with medicines for people with mental health needs.

commissioning targets. What may be different is the recent drive to provide a more community based mental health service moving away from long in-patient stays. This leads towards a recovery focused model where people can get better in their own homes. One of the biggest challenges for our pharmacy teams is how do we also move out into the community to ensure medicines safety is considered as important as we treat it in hospital. There is no single answer but we are ready and excited about the future.

The College of Mental Health Pharmacy is proud to be educational partners with the Clinical Pharmacy Congress and we value the opportunity to improve awareness and education in mental health. Together we can reduce the debilitating stigma associated with mental illness and help provide the best pharmaceutical care to our patients.

Pharmaceutical care for people with mental health problems is improved by providing the pharmacy team members with high quality education and support about mental health conditions and their management.

The College delivers this by a combination of: • Accreditation of specialist mental health pharmacists • Delivery of high quality educational resources for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians • Supporting choice for people by making available unbiased information on medicines • Providing expert input to National Guidelines and health policy for medicines in mental health • Supporting and disseminating research in the field of mental health pharmacy

For more information visit www.cmhp.org.uk.

Integrated Health and Social Care

By Helen Liddell, Head of Medicines Management, Leeds South & East CCG and Committee Member for the Primary Care Pharmacists Association (PCPA) The Nicholson challenge means we need to deliver care in a more cost effective manner. With an increased elderly population and a greater burden of population with long term conditions the drive is to treat more patients out of hospital in settings closer to home. service utilisation by reducing the likelihood of their health deterioration. Computer programmes have been installed to pull out various patient data sets and profile the population –‘population predictive risk profiling’. Multidisciplinary teams discuss a patient case load identified from this system and look at care in a new way across health and adult social services. These teams include District Nurses, Community Matrons, Practice Nurses, GPs and Social Services.

Pharmacists also attend team meetings when it is practical.

Due to limited resource availability and timing it has not always been possible for all practices to be supported in this way, however, where they have it has proved a valuable experience and some significant interventions have been made.

One shift in policy direction is linking health and social care so that the patient becomes the centre of datasets and services that cross organisation boundaries. Patient treatment is thus intrinsically linked with how they live and whether they are able to take their medicines. Homecare and other patient support services are an essential component of Medicines Optimisation. This article looks at how Medicines Management Services have begun to link into this way of working, with pharmacists being integrated in the primary care health and social care teams giving greater potential for medicines interventions and patient benefit.

At Leeds South and East CCG GP practices have been incentivised to identify patients who are at the highest risk of being admitted to hospital and to develop interventions across health and social care settings in order to prevent

Some patients identified through the profiling system were less suited to interventions than others, however medicines interventions were made in around 50% of patients identified and in some cases such as Mrs W below very significant medicines management input has been demonstrated: Mrs W was on 35 medicines. 15 interventions were suggested including: reviewing antipsychotic medicines to help control diabetes, stopping medicines where there was reason recorded (e.g. creams, hypnotics and vitamin and mineral supplements) rationalising treatment for pain and treatment for nausea - suggesting approaches to reduce number of medicines but taking account of medication history, suggesting thyroid test, trial stopping quinine in line with BNF recommendations, stopping sumatriptan as contraindicated in Ischaemic heart disease, checking inhaler technique and considering ACE Inhibitor for heart failure. She ended up on 21 medicines and felt considerably better after the changes had been made.

Ahead of the meeting the practice pharmacist looks up patient records for current medication, drug and clinical history. Suggestions for medicines optimisation are made that ensure harm is minimised and patient outcomes maximised.

The pharmacist will discuss this at the multidisciplinary team meeting or if time does not permit attendance a list of interventions is supplied for the team to discuss From our experiences we have learnt that this predictive risk profiling system can be used more efficiently by medicines management teams when also targeting those having diseases associated with high medicines use. We have chosen COPD as our area of focus and this is in line with current CCG priorities. Identifying patients in this way has allowed an even greater number of interventions and outcomes to be realised across patients.

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Turn your attendance at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress into valuable CPD As you will know all too well, working in pharmacy is a constant learning curve. Whether you qualified five years ago or 50, rapid developments have shaped the industry that we know today.

Clare Howard, Deputy CPhO, will open the proceedings on Friday morning in the Keynote Theatre and present the Chief Pharmaceutical Officers’ Address. Throughout the two-day event, other key names such as Duncan McRobbie, Anna Murphy, Caroline Ashley and Helen Williams amongst others will be presenting on therapeutic areas that include, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and anti-coagulation.

Following a similar theme to 2013, there will be five main theatres – Keynote, Leadership, Clinical, Clinical & Technology, and NEW for 2014 is the Medicines Optimisation Workshops which will provide an interactive forum for learning. Alongside the main conference programme, returning again for 2014 is the Leaders Forum where a number of high profile pharmacy professionals will lead discussions on policy to an invitationonly group.

Another new concept for 2014 is the Innovation Exchange, a new mini-lecture theatre on the Congress floor where delegates can share best practice and innovation. To read more on this, please turn to the front page.

In order to keep up with the latest advancements, skills and trends in the profession, continual education is essential. This is of course not something new to you, the GPhC’s regulations ensure that you and your team are frequently seeking ways to develop and broaden your knowledge and skills.

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress offers pharmacy professionals 55 hours of CPD education, it is the ideal place to keep abreast of all the latest news in policy and key therapeutic areas, as well as meet more than 100 exhibiting companies who are showcasing the latest products, medicines, services and technologies – there will be over eight hours of stand visiting time built into the programme, giving delegates the opportunity to explore all the exhibiting companies on the Congress floor.

With all this great content on offer, CPD record aids will be provided onsite to enable delegates to take notes , and will also publish all the presentations (speakers authorisation permitting) on to The Clinical Pharmacy Congress website after the event, giving delegates the opportunity to catchup on any missed sessions and gain additional CPD.

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The Hanwell software has been specifically designed with a full validation option and this is in use and recommended by a wide spectrum of organisations throughout the pharmaceutical industry including GSK.

Our sister company, Torbet Laboratories Ltd, provides the Pylobactell breath test kits for the detection of Helicobacter pylori that burrows into the lining of the stomach and gut.

Torbet Labs also operate a UKAS accredited Laboratory for analysing the breath samples generated from use of the kits, the only laboratory in the UK accredited for this type of analysis.

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Polartherm™ Our products include insulated transport packaging for blood products, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals and many other specialist applications.

Our clients include, National Blood Service, M&S, Pfizer, GSK, Exel Global Logistics, Astra Zeneca, DHL as well as the MOD & NHS. Our product range covers small payloads of 10 vaccines, to a complete global shipper holding 1200 vaccines between 2-8°C for over 5 days. We specialise in the design and manufacture of bespoke products tailored exclusively to meet our clients’ needs.

Polartherm™ is a unique triple layer insulation developed from the NASA space programme. It comprises an inner reflective layer, a hollow fill fibre filler and a robust woven PVC (optionally fireproof) outer. It is lightweight, robust, hygienic and easily cleaned and complies with UK and US food safety requirements.

Independent trials have been conducted by Cambridge Refrigeration Technology Ltd which proves that Polartherm™ has the best thermal insulating properties in its class.

NHS Protect NHS Protect leads on work to identify and tackle crime across the health service in England.

The aim is to protect NHS staff and resources from activities that would otherwise undermine their effectiveness and their ability to meet the needs of patients and professionals.

Theft of controlled drugs is an area of responsibility for NHS Protect and a toolkit to address medicine security in the NHS is being developed.

Any suspicions of fraud, bribery or corruption in the NHS should be reported to our Fraud & Corruption Reporting Line: 0800 028 40 60.

Our unique technically advanced systems include Medi-365, Grab and Go, Medi-Locker and Medi-Vend. Solutions that are successfully operating in numerous Hospital Emergency Departments and Wards throughout the UK. These cost effective Medi-365 systems continue to provide genuine improvements in efficiency, stock availability, patient care and safety, reducing drug errors and omissions, saving valuable time and money.

Systems that are easy to use, versatile, totally controlled, providing high security especially in the management and supply of drugs and medicines. Medi-365 systems are designed to control numerous commodities including – Pharmacy OOH medicines, Clinical and Medical consumables, IV Fluids, Prosthetics etc. Want to save money without impacting on the continued delivery of an efficient and high quality service?

Visit Mediwell on our stand for further information and demonstration, “Protection through Innovation”.

The system transmits data wirelessly to a local PC or network for immediate alarm notification and data analysis with stored historical records for auditing purposes.

Cambridge Healthcare Supplies Ltd is a UK based pharmaceutical business supplying a range of niche dermatological, urological and ophthalmic healthcare products, including the well known brands: Golden Eye range, Effercitrate Tablets (potassium citrate and citric acid), Xepin 5% w/w cream (doxepin hydrochloride), Anabact metronidazole 0.75% topical gel, and the Nature’s Kiss range of topical herbal rubs and sports rubs.

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The Clinical Pharmacy Congress will be held Friday 25th & 26th April at the London ExCeL. For more information about visiting look online at www.pharmacycongress. co.uk, call 02476 719688 or email m.hulse@ closerstillmedia.com

With a radio range of over 3km over open ground, Hanwell provides the most reliable wireless technology on the market today.

Cambridge Healthcare Supplies

Polar Thermal Packaging Ltd: Telephone: 01985 214 111 www.polartherm.co.uk

The conference programme for Congress 2014 has once again been programmed in conjunction with the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE), The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) amongst others and is already in its final stages. With over seven months still to go until doors open, a number of the industry’s leading professionals have already confirmed to present to an anticipated audience of 2,000 hospital pharmacy professionals.

Our systems can be easily adapted and expanded to suit a multitude of monitoring parameters from temperature and humidity monitoring of medical supplies to temperature and CO within medical equipment such as incubators.

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More information on NHS Protect can be found at www. nhsprotect.nhs.uk.

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The Home of Clinical Pharmacy Bringing together the UK’s clinical pharmacy leaders next April.

The largest CPD clinical education programme for pharmacists, technicians and medicines management teams ever staged in the UK

A faculty of world-class speakers, programmed by the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

55 hours of cutting-edge clinical content mapped to the GPhC requirements for CPD recording

Research and source from over 100 specialist suppliers of medicines and specialist pharmacy technology and equipment on the exhibition floor

Network with over 2,000 clinical pharmacy professionals, share best practice and have fun

Free delegate lunches

Delegate tickets are ÂŁ499 + VAT (for one or two days). Please note, education passes will be distributed across UK NHS & Private Hospitals in December, so please ask your Chief Pharmacist for your hospital voucher code and access one of the limited free places.

Education partners: UK Renal Pharmacy Group

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