Heartbeat October 2019
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Pharmacy in focus<br />
CORPORATE AND GENERAL<br />
NEWS<br />
During September and <strong>October</strong> the<br />
pharmacy department celebrated<br />
World Pharmacist Day and World<br />
Pharmacy Technician Day – events<br />
that celebrated the importance of<br />
pharmacy technicians.<br />
In our organisation we have a team of<br />
over 130 pharmacy colleagues consisting<br />
of pharmacists, technicians and pharmacy<br />
support staff. They support all aspects of<br />
medicines use from advice on medication<br />
safety to clinical queries and staff training.<br />
You’ll find the team working across<br />
many different different areas including<br />
dispensaries, procurement, ward-based<br />
services, training and education, medicines<br />
information and aseptic services.<br />
Ilka Fisher is a lead Electronic Prescribing<br />
Medicines Administration (EPMA) technician<br />
Ilka Fisher – Lead EPMA technician<br />
based at Sandwell pharmacy. Ilka steered the<br />
Unity EPMA build from development through<br />
to its successful launch. With her team she<br />
maintains the EPMA catalogue and all the<br />
other safety aspects of electronic prescribing.<br />
This ensures patients have their drugs safely<br />
prescribed and administered.<br />
Ilka said “Awareness days like these are<br />
important as they help to highlight the work<br />
the wider pharmacy team does across the<br />
Trust. We work in many areas in a variety of<br />
roles in addition to dispensaries.”<br />
She added “With the introduction of Unity<br />
we’ve worked collaboratively with a lot of<br />
different areas. Across the wider team, ward<br />
based pharmacists were out and about<br />
supporting training and coaching. Everyone<br />
worked to ensure the change to digital was<br />
smooth and, most importantly that patient<br />
safety wasn’t compromised.”<br />
Follow our pharmacy team at<br />
@SWBHPharmacy to stay up to date<br />
with all the latest news.<br />
On Connect you’ll find the latest<br />
updates on medicines shortages, safety<br />
bulletins and opening times. If you have<br />
experienced any medicine related incidents<br />
or near misses in your area it's important<br />
to fill out an IR1 form. This helps to detect<br />
issues that may be happening across the<br />
Trust. It also helps the team to take steps<br />
to stop errors from happening.<br />
Colleagues in pharmacy department celebrate World Pharmacist Day and World Pharmacy Technician Day<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong> staff lottery results<br />
1 st £194.50<br />
Elizabeth Crisp<br />
2 nd £116.70<br />
Karen Morsley<br />
3 rd £77.80<br />
Amanda Jowett<br />
10<br />
Don’t forget that Your Trust Charity lottery costs just £1 a month and anyone<br />
who works for the Trust can join. Payment is deducted from your wages each<br />
month. To take part email amanda.winwood@nhs.net.
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