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But that motto isn’t just for patients. If requests to contribute to community initiatives in health promotion are anything to go by, pharmacy is certainly at the top of most organisations’ lists for those to consult. This month NIPinF has heard about such projects drawing on the expertise of pharmacists from across Northern...
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| Written by Laure James - Editor Pharmacy in Focus | |
| Tuesday, 16 September 2008 12:49 | |
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Pharmacists from across the UK vying for much-needed funding for local service provision were attracted to Edinburgh for the Numark training panel’s inaugural meeting recently, where initial bursary applications were approved for funding of over £3000. The scheme, which is run in partnership with Actavis, offers pharmacists with the ambition and talent to propel service provision into a new age, funding for education and training. Four successful applicants have already received up to 75 per cent towards their chosen courses, including Glyn Ratcliffe from GR Pharmacy, Birmingham, who received funding for accredited anticoagulant training. “Anticoagulation monitoring services are being devolved from secondary to primary care in our PCT, and we hope to be successful with our tender to provide this service,” Glyn commented. “In order to develop the service within the pharmacy we decided that we needed more than one practitioner. So when we heard about the bursary we decided that both myself and Joanna Rose, who is a university graduate and qualified checking dispensing assistant, would apply for funding to become qualified as oral anticoagulation clinicians. This will be a big step forward for community pharmacy and we are very grateful to Numark and Actavis for helping us to achieve this.” Eoghan O’Brien from Bannside Pharmacy, Portglenone and Caroline Duffy, from Murphys Chemist in Crossmaglen are two of the twelve panel members, with which they share a passion for training and development but bring with them a diverse range of expertise. “When I first heard about the initiative I was very interested to hear that the judging panel would have input from pharmacists and funding allocation was not just based on what the supporting company’s decisions were,” Eoghan told NIPinF. “The fact they were actively seeking input from Northern Ireland was also very encouraging. Seeing manufacturers actively support training and education for pharmacists is very positive.” |