Introducing our speakers
speech abstract
The Pharmacy National framework
Medication is a prime tool in modern medical practice. The increasing
number of new and complex medications requires practitioners and
consumers to be aware of the importance of the responsible use of both
new and existing medicines. This involves ensuring the best
possible outcomes.
The safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines requires the following principles to be considered:
Ensuring the best possible outcomes for consumers from their medicines
by monitoring outcomes, minimising misuse, over-use and under-use and
ensuring compliance
Solving and preventing medicine related problems
Use of evidence based, best practice information to select the best medicine or other treatment option
Considered prescribing that takes into account the individual, the
clinical condition, efficacy, risks, benefits, dosage, length of
treatment, co-morbidities and other treatment options
Consideration of treatment cost-effectiveness, from the perspectives of the individual, community and health system as a whole
This session will focus on these principles and discuss in wider depth
the national Safe and Quality Use of Medicines Strategy which is due to
be finalised later in the year.
biography
Elizabeth is Chief Pharmacist for the Taranaki District Health Board
responsible for the hospital pharmacy and overseeing the provision of
all pharmaceutical services for the DHB.
She is a member of the New Zealand Safe Quality Use of Medicines
Committee, the New Zealand DHBNZ National Community Pharmacy Advisory
Group (working on the National Framework for Pharmacy Services and the
Procedures manual) and has previously been on the Hospital
Pharmaceutical Advisory committee for PHARMAC, and the NZHPA Executive.
Her Masters thesis was "The Analysis of Workforce and Service Delivery Models across NZ Hospital Pharmacies in 2001 and 2003."
Elizabeth won the National Supreme Award in the Pharmacy Awards 2000, for her Innovation in Hospital Pharmacy Award.
During her nine years at Taranaki she has been responsible for the
first installation of the Ascribe Pharmacy Computer System into the
Southern Hemisphere, the first Pyxis Automated Drug Distribution
installation into a New Zealand Hospital, and recently the first
installation of Pyxis "cubies" and the C2 Safe system into the Asia
Pacific region.
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