COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICE INITIATIVE


ENTRY CAN BE BY NOMINATION OR BY SELF ENTRY.


Entrants to this Award will be able to demonstrate how they have grown their offering to their community through innovation and planned development, supported by strategic investment.


This may, for example, have been achieved by the implementation of a new strategy, the launch of a new product or service, or through a successful merger or acquisition.


The judges will be looking at how these developments have been received in the community. They will also focus on sustainability and the long-term goals and strategy that have been put in place.


Entries should be of real value to the community, well run and an inspiration to others.


WHO CAN ENTER? • This category is open to all pharmacists and their teams working in either independent or chain pharmacies.


• Previous Community Pharmacy Service Initiative Award entrants, including winners, are also welcome to submit an entry.


• All entries will be judged by an independent panel of experts.


JUDGES WILL BE LOOKING FOR: • Evidence of plans for further research and development.


• Evidence of a sound business plan, sales and marketing strategies. • Identification of the need and value of the project to the community. • Proven benefit to the community. • Scope for sustaining benefits in the longer term or extending the project.


ACTAVIS IS DELIGHTED TO SPONSOR THE COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICE INITIATIVE CATEGORY OF THE PRESTIGIOUS PHARMACY IN FOCUS AWARDS WHICH RECOGNISE THE BEST OF NORTHERN IRELAND’S PHARMACIES.


The Community Pharmacy Service Initiative category recognises the achievements of pharmacists who have delivered an outstanding contribution to their local community and increased patient benefits.


At Actavis, we work closely with pharmacists to support your business needs, allowing you to spend more time focusing on patient services.


We have been supplying the UK market for over 175 years. This fact, coupled with our longevity and size, means that you can trust us to consistently provide you with high quality medicines when you need them. And, in a complex market place, the Actavis Scheme provides clear and simple to understand pricing alongside flexible account management. This is all aimed at helping you to build your business, and make sure the Actavis deal that you’re on is working for you.


“Pharmacy services are where community pharmacy makes the most difference to its patients and local area.


“We aim to support pharmacists in this endeavour and look forward to celebrating their success at the awards.


“If you have developed an award-winning service initiative, then please do enter this award and we wish you success in your entry.”


JONATHAN WILSON, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ACTAVIS UK


eHEALTH & INNOVATION IN PHARMACY


ENTRY CAN BE BY NOMINATION OR BY SELF -ENTRY.


As its name suggests, the eHealth & Innovation in Pharmacy Award’s principal aim is to reward innovation by using technology to promote quality, safety and efficiency in healthcare within community pharmacy.


“eHealth can benefit citizens, patients, health and care professionals but also health organisations and public authorities. eHealth - when applied effectively - delivers more personalised ‘citizen-centric’ healthcare, which is more targeted, effective and efficient and helps reduce errors, as well as the length of hospitalisation. It facilitates socio-economic inclusion and equality, quality of life and patient empowerment through greater transparency, access to services and information and the use of social media for health”… European Union eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020.


The judging panel will be looking for ways in which a project is both innovative and successful.


This Award identifies individuals and teams working within community pharmacy, whose ideas or inventions have, or could lead to, improvement in patient experience in all areas of care throughout their community.


JUDGES WILL BE LOOKING FOR: • Activities that may involve pioneering new models or systems that improve pharmacists’ impact as members of the healthcare team; patient safety and outcomes; patient care in general and other professional development.


• Development of a system or tool for pharmacy that will directly or immediately impact patient care or the profession and/or serve as an example or template for other pharmacy professionals to follow .


• Measurable benefits of your initiative. Please use financial data wherever possible (percentages, ratios, graphic images etc.), as well as other statistics, to show how your project has brought added value, profits, customer satisfaction improvements, productivity increases or any other benefit.


“THE NAME MCLERNONS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH TWO THINGS – LOCAL EXPERTISE AND GROUND-BREAKING INNOVATION.”


We strive to adapt quickly to the constantly changing environment that our customers are working in, whether that be new wholesalers appearing on the market, new pharmaceutical services or legislative and professional changes to the dispensing environment.


We know that pharmacists were the very first healthcare profession to integrate IT into their delivery of pharmaceutical care, printing labels on the very first PCs, while other professions were still using the equivalent of a quill.


We know that the expectations of patients have increased exponentially in the past few years, and we develop software and mobile phone apps to help our customers meet and exceed these expectations.


As a local company, employing local people, with our Customer Services and technical teams based in our offices outside Saintfield, we are on hand to respond to any queries, deal with any problems or visit your pharmacy to carry out upgrades or repairs. We understand that your pharmacy systems, whether they be MPS Dispensing or MPS Retail, are vital to ensuring the profitability of your business and our response times and speed of assis- tance cannot be equalled.


Just as we continue to innovate and develop new software applications for our customers, I have no doubt that every pharmacy through NI is inno- vative in the way it delivers services to patients. I would urge you to take some time to sit down and complete an entry form for the awards and look forward to seeing you in January.


KEITH MCLERNON, MANAGING DIRECTOR, MCLERNON COMPUTERS


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