This year’s awards covered every aspect of the work that’s prevalent in both hospital and community pharmacy throughout Scotland and, as always, a huge number of entries were received across all ten categories: Training & Development, Excellence in Community Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacy Business Development, Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year, Innovation & Enterprise within Pharmacy Practice, Management of Travel Health in Community Pharmacy, Working in Partnership, Community Pharmacy Team of the Year, Pharmacist of the Year and Outstanding Contribution to Pharmacy.
As always, support for the awards was fantastic. In addition to the phenomenal support from event partner, AAH Pharmaceuticals, there was outstanding support from sponsors including: the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Scotland, Numark, AAH Hospital Services, Valneva in Partnership, Positive Solutions, Willach, Teva UK Ltd, VSL#3 The Highly Concentrated Poly- Biotic Food Supplement, Bestway Medhub and Wardles, EMIS Health, Community Pharmacy Scotland, Scottish Pharmacist, Eclipse Generics, Lexon and EFX.
Once again this year, the standard of the applications was outstanding and the judges really were tested when it came to naming the finalists.
Among the winners on the night was Davidson’s Chemist in Bridge of Earn, who picked up the Working in
Partnership Award for their sterling efforts last year when they were given only eight days’ notice that the local GP surgery was closing and had to transfer 3500 patients to other surgeries. The pharmacy team’s work was so seamless that the whole process – carried out in collaboration with other healthcare professionals – went without a hitch, so much so, in fact, that the pharmacy also picked up the Community Pharmacy Team of the Year Award for its exceptional efforts.
The formal part of the evening ended with the Outstanding Contribution accolade, which was presented to
Fiona Reid by Community Pharmacy Scotland CEO, Professor Harry McQuillan.
Harry provided the guests with an overview of Fiona Reid’s impressive career.
‘Some achievements of note during this period,’ he said in his citation, ‘include the fact that Fiona was the first pharmacist to practise as a prescriber in Scotland. She was also responsible for the design, development and implementation of the UK’s first pharmacist-led hypertension/cardiovascular risk management clinic and also secured firstly the funding of and the provision of the UK’s first pharmacist-led heart failure clinic designed and delivered within primary care. This development was highlighted in the Scottish Government’s Pharmacy Strategy – The Right Medicine in February 2002 and very much paved the way for our profession’s progression.’
Harry brought laughter to the room at the end of the citation when he remarked that he had ‘had the privilege of knowing tonight’s award winner for over twenty years now and they have still managed to include,
within this incredible career, the time to be a parent to two children, be an avid and successful golfer, develop a sweet tooth for tablet, a desire for a bag of chips at the end of a night out and way too big a crush on a certain Henrik Larsson. If you haven’t worked out who tonight’s recipient is, you will see that, when they take to the stage in the next few seconds, that dynamite does indeed come in small packs’.
The award recipient, Fiona Reid, was overwhelmed as she took to the stage and extremely emotional. The award was, she said, ‘beyond her wildest dreams’ and there is no doubt that she proved a worthy recipient of the accolade.
After all of the formalities were concluded – and a fantastic meal was enjoyed by all – guests were able to spend time networking with their peers, with everyone agreeing that it was a tremendous night for the Scottish pharmacy profession.
Over the next twenty pages, you can read all about the winners and about the reasons why they won. All social pictures and the event video are available to view at
scottishpharmacist.com
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