centre for pharmacy innovation - professor alison ewing
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Centre for Pharmacy InnovationInnovation through collaboration . . .
Professor Alison B Ewing Clinical Director of Pharmacy, RLBUHT, LWH & Aintree University Hospital
Professor of Pharmacy Innovation LJMU
Adam CrampsieHead of Clinical Service Design, LloydsPharmacy
Pharmacy Innovation• First for robotic dispensing 2002• First purchasing manager
professionally CIPS trained• First acute Trust to outsource
outpatient dispensing to LloydsPharmacy in 2008 – an innovation that would lead to over 60 acute trusts outsourcing their outpatient dispensing
Centre for Pharmacy Innovation: Conception
• The Centre for Pharmacy Innovation is a tripartite research collaboration between the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and LloydsPharmacy
• Formed as a result of . . .– Difficulties in research collaboration
– Lloydspharmacy & Royal partnership since 2009
– Conversation ‘started’ ~2011
– Changes in Government thinking about pharmacy services - a move to clinical pharmacists working in community pharmacy and general practice
• Aim – ‘sustain a centre of excellence focusing on clinical pharmacy practice research, and the education and training of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians’
Two Strands: Research & Education
Research Education
Research
• Funded PhD research . . . Models of Care in the NHS: Patient transfer to primary care on discharge from hospital • Discharge problems• Qualitative research • Patient involvement• Registered pharmacist real time
perspective• New model of care• Translation into new innovative
processes . . .
• 2 published papers in Eur J Hosp Pharm
• Research into current processes with feedback from all users around issues leading to development of new pathways
Turning Research into Reality• Outputs of PhD research are now being
used to develop a pilot between acute trusts and community providers
• Pilot and post-doc will look to measure the impact of the re-design
• Centre for Pharmacy Innovation using the breadth of the tripartite arrangement to make this happen
• Successful pilot could see this adopted in many more trusts!
Additional Projects
• MSc students & courses• Other sources of external sources of funding• Enhancing education and research capabilities of workforce• Chemotherapy closer to home• HIV – different ways of delivering treatment• Up skilling pharmacists to work with GPs• To advance interface and primary/community care practice
Education
Centre aims to encourage and inspire inter-professional, interdisciplinary and inter-
sector integration to facilitate the aspiration of excellence in the delivery of
health and social care
Education
• Development of Teacher Practitioners working at LJMU – adding real life experience to pharmacy undergraduate course
• PgCert/PgDip/MSc programme in Clinical Pharmacy in Primary and Interface Care offered at LJMU– Aimed at pharmacists working in community pharmacies, general medical practices or
hospital outpatient pharmacies operated by community providers– Benefit from clinical teaching delivered by specialist practising pharmacists – Optional Independent Prescribing pathway – Demonstrate best practice on a course aligned to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Foundation Pharmacy Framework
Additional Opportunities• Pharmacists in GP surgeries• Long term condition management in
the community• New health & social care funding• Medication review and new contracts• New partners – industry, social care
and private sector• Multi-trust working increases
opportunities• Electronic prescription transfer
