Award winners improve prescribing and communication at care interface

摘要

THE possibility of community pharmacists advising on secondary care prescribing was examined by the winners of the 2002 joint National Pharmaceutical Association and Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists award. Reporting the results at the British Pharmaceutical Conference last week, Ros McLoughlin, community services pharmacist, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, explained that the aims of the project had been to improve communiation across the primary/secondary care interface and to find out more about outpatient prescribing.