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NatIONal REcOgNItION fOR INSUlIN maNagEmENt INItIatIVE
a diabetes insulin management service d-Nav®, delivered through a partnership between South Eastern hSc trust (SEhSct) and Northern Ireland-based hygieia medical, has won a prestigious national healthcare award.
first implemented in SEhSct four years ago, the d-Nav service has now won the ‘digital and technology Solutions in the treatment and management of diabetes’ category at the Quality in care diabetes awards; recognition, which comes on the back of winning the prestigious Northern Ireland e-health award for ‘Best Use of technology to Improve healthcare’.
the diabetes team at the Ulster hospital was introduced to d-Nav a few years ago and has since had an opportunity to carry out an evaluation of this totally novel approach to insulin optimisation. the results have been, in a word, phenomenal and d-Nav has since been employed as a service to those patients using insulin.
aNtIBIOtIc gUaRdIaN camPaIgN 2016
launched in September 2014, the antibiotic guardian campaign, has now seen over 32,800 individuals (public and healthcare professionals) become antibiotic guardians; each choosing a pledge about how they will personally use antibiotics more prudently. Now pharmacists can join in with a twitter chat (#antibioticguardian) which takes place on 15 November 2016 from 8pm-9.30pm, which will look at antimicrobial resistance (amR) in general, and the antibiotic guardian campaign and the role of pharmacy teams in tackling amR in particular.
4 - PhaRmacy IN fOcUS
£1mIllION awaRd fOR NEw PROgRammE Of cOmmUNIty caRE
13,200 funded 'alternative care prescriptions'.
through the mechanism of community Partnership agreements, the services of gP practices, community pharmacists and staff from a range of community-based organisations and public care services will be co-ordinated by local health and well-being hubs. If successful, the partnership hopes to see the project replicated in other local authority areas.
Deirdre McCloskey, Project Development Officer, MEEAP; Stephen Slaine ICP Chair, Mid & East Antrim; Mayor Audrey Wales MBE and Anne Marie O'Boyle, Northern ICP Business Manager.
the dunhill medical trust will award nearly £1 million to the mid and East antrim agewell Partnership (mEaaP) for a new programme of community-based care and support for older people.
this award is part of the dunhill medical trust’s £4million Older People’s care Improvement Initiative, initiated in 2013 in response public
provision failings in the care of the frailest people in society.
the ImPact (Involving many to Prescribe alternative care together) Programme will deliver a wide range of activities, services and support programmes to a minimum of 1,100 people aged 70 years and over in mid and East antrim, through up to
'as the local agewell Partnership,' said deirdre mccloskey, Project development Officer (mEaaP), 'we aim to improve the lives of older people across the Ballymena, larne and carrickfergus areas.
‘Over the last three years, our successful core ageing well & Reaching Out Programme has given us an insight into the various experiences of older people in terms of meeting their health needs. we are now delighted to be in a position to showcase the impact social needs, like access to transport, loneliness and literacy, can have on the health and wellbeing of older people in our community.'
‘adVIcE IN latER lIfE’ EVENt a gREat SUccESS!
asking for advice on behalf of older relatives.
'the age NI advice service currently receives more than 12,000 queries from older people, their carers and families about issues relating to later life,' said Brenda kearns, age NI head of advice and advocacy, 'with the top concerns relating to community care, welfare benefits and housing issues.
Mairead Conlon, Julie Anderson, Emma Templeton, Deborah Hughes-Johnston and Caroline Stewart are joined by Carol Farr.
an event held recently at the health centre Pharmacy in carrickfergus and hosted by age NI proved to be a great success with local patients.
two trained advisors from the charity were available throughout the day at the pharmacy to answer queries from both older people or those who were
'a growing number of people in the carrick area are turning to age NI for help or advice and we want to support people, especially those living in rural areas, to access the help that they need. this was one very beneficial way of providing that support within the community.'
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