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BANNSIDE PHARMACY, PORTGLEONE
John Laverty, Regional Manager North, Alliance Healthcare presents the award to Ryan Graham (left) and Eoghan O'Brien from Bannside Pharmacy
In February last year, Bannside Pharmacy received £2,161.00 funding from the Diabetes UK NI Innovation & Improvement Fund to run a twelve- week programme for ten people with type 2 diabetes with the aim of helping them achieve better control and/or reversal of their condition, provided that they were willing to make changes in their lifestyles.
Bannside Pharmacy pharmacists Eoghan O'Brien and Ryan Graham delivered the programme in partnership with: Dr Rebecca Houghton, Consultant Clinical Psychologist – Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, Northern Health and Social Care Trust; Nora O’Neill, Community Development Worker, Portglenone Enterprise Group and Leslie McLaughlin - Everybody Active 2020 physical activity coach at Mid & East Antrim Council.
Over the course of the twelve weeks, the group covered a wide range of associated issues – from exercise to looking at the processes and stages of change.
By the end of the project, six of the ten patients had a decrease in HBA1c to 6.5 per cent (48 mmol/mol) or lower; seven of the ten had a clinically significant decrease in HbA1c by at least 0.5 per cent mmol/L and, of these seven, two are now in remission!
Two of the participants have also reduced their medication on the advice of their diabetic nurse. The positive results generated considerable goodwill, with the participants speaking positively to others about the health benefits they have received from the pharmacy’s guidance.
‘The Diabetes Innovation & Improvement fund provided us with an excellent opportunity to design a programme for people with type 2 diabetes that had some very positive outcomes. I would encourage other community pharmacists to look for similar funding streams’ Eoghan O’Brien
‘I think it’s very important for pharmacy professionals to network at events like this, as pharmacists spend most of their time isolated in the community, serving the community and I think it is really important to get together to celebrate the successes, to network with their colleagues and their peers and to share best practice’ John Laverty, Regional Manager North, Alliance Healthcare
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