Pharmacy, Imperial College Healthcare Trust and the Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality
The Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) Pharmacy department is spread across three hospital sites and provides a comprehensive pharmacy service including dispensing, provision of medicines information and aseptic compounding. The service has specialist pharmacists for admissions and discharge, cancer services, clinical trials, infectious diseases, HIV, medicine, paediatrics, mental health, neurosciences, research and surgery. The department is also research active with their main areas of research relating to medication safety and the use of technology to improve service. The Centre’s main collaborator from Pharmacy is Ann Jacklin, Chief of Service for Pharmacy and Therapies at the Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality (CMSSQ) is a joint initiative between the Pharmacy Department at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and The School of Pharmacy (SOP), University of London. The CMSSQ has a significant research output, most of which focuses on medication safety. This is closely aligned with the research strategy of the Department of Practice and Policy at SOP, and with both national and international research agendas. The director of the MSSQ Centre and the main collaborator with the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management is Bryony Dean Franklin. Ann Jacklin is the Centre’s Joint Chair.
Ann Jacklin, Bryony Dean Franklin and the ICHT Pharmacy department are collaborating with the Centre in work-stream 1 “embedding infection prevention: Behaviour Change”, work-stream 3 “infection surveillance” and work-stream 4 “capacity building”. In work-stream 1 the Pharmacy Department is involved in assisting with the development and implementation of information interventions designed in line with social marketing principles to bring about sustainable change in prescribing behaviours. In work-stream 3 the department is liaising with the Centre Data Manager, to provide information on prescribing behaviours in order to develop systems to monitor antibiotic resistance and prescribing practice to facilitate the investigation of antibiotic strategies across primary and acute care. In work-stream 4 members of the department are contributing to the continued success of the MSc in Infection Prevention for Pharmacist and the delivery of other courses as part of the Centre’s aim to provide multi-disciplinary and multi-professional training and education.
