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Annual Report 2016
Medicines Safety & Quality Group Annual Report
Governance and leadership information
Current Committee
Chairperson:
Committee Members:
Gillian Cavell FFRPS
Yogini Jani FFRPS, Amanda McLean MFRPSII, Nicola Wake, Kevin Gibbs, Naomi Burns, Margaret
Stone, Alice Oborne, Surinder Ahuja
Online discussion group
There are 707 members registered on the online discussion group, a 15% increase on last year.
Committee meetings
No formal committee meetings have been held
Other important information
The committee is geographically diverse which creates difficulties with face-to-face meetings
Expert Professional Practice
Contribution to the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) consultation Global Vision for the Workforce and
Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals.
Education, Training & Development
UKCPA/JoMO event on Medicines Optimisation in Diabetes, Manchester, May 2016 (Gillian Cavell)
UKCPA/JoMO event on Medicines Optimisation in Diabetes, London, October 2016 (Gillian Cavell)
Medication Safety Pearls talk presented at Clinical Pharmacy Congress, London 2016 (Nicola Wake, Kevin Gibbs, Gillian
Cavell)
Group funds
No budget expenditure.
Have you met your aims and objectives set last year?
To contribute a session on Medication Safety as a cross-cutting theme within Specialty Masterclasses.
Not met.
Reflection
The group has an active discussion forum on the website. In addition, since the setting up of the MSO network
communication, opportunities to discuss medication safety issues with other Medication Safety expert pharmacists are
provided by the monthly Webex conference.
There is a need to disseminate information to more junior pharmacists, as medication safety is a generalist topic. However,
this is difficult to achieve and study days and workshops addressing medication safety issues are less well attended by junior
pharmacists than clinical sessions.
We will aim to address this in our strategy for 2017.
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