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Seminar Title

 

Workshop 7 – Medication reconciliation on admission

Affiliation

North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT)

Country

United Kingdom

1. Current Status, Position
 
Principal Pharmacist, Service Development and Governance.
 
2. Education
 
Mrs Smith received her BSc (Hons) in Pharmacy from Manchester University (1978) and her MSc in Management Development and Social Responsibility from Bristol University (2001).
She has worked in Hospital Pharmacy for all her career in: Dispensary Management, Clinical Pharmacy, Medicines Information, Management and Governance roles and she is now the Medication Safety Officer for NBT. She also had a secondment working in Radiology, Pathology and Pharmacy whilst involved in an Operational Service Improvement project.
 
3. Research Area
 
Her current speciality is Patient Safety and Service Improvement. 
In 2007, NBT was selected to take part in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement / Health Foundation programme of the Safer Patient’s Initiaitve (SPI2). Their improvement workstreams included: “Medicines Reconciliation on Admission” and “Reducing Harm from Anticoagulants”. Subsequent work has included “Reducing the Incidence of Missed Doses”; “Increasing the Use of Patients Own Drugs” and “Improving the provision of a Compliance Aid dispensing service”.
NBT is now taking part in the Southwest Patient Safety Improvement programme “Safer Care SouthWest” and is June 2014, NBT was also one of the first 12 NHS organisations in England to “Sign up to Safety” – a three-year Government-led campaign that aims to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world. 
 
Conflict of interest: None
 
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