History of the UKPPG

Awards

AstraZeneca Travel Award

  Recipient Title
1997 Brett Hill (Cardiff) Optimising Antidepressant Compliance in Primary Care
1998   The appropriateness of antipsychotic prescribing in UK nursing homes
1999 Shameem Mir (London) Prescribing of atypical antipsychotics
2000 Diane Harris (Derbyshire) Developing the role of community pharmacists in the care of older people with mental health problems discharged from hospital
2001 Salwar Morcos (Canterbury) A descriptive study of discrepancies in prescribing between primary and secondary sectors of mental health service provision (presented by Chris Link from AstraZeneca)
2002 Lynn Haygarth (Huddersfield) Finding the best way to improve pharmaceutical care with limited resources (presented by Arlene Herring from AstraZeneca)
2003 No award -
2004 Bren Holmes and Stephen Bazire (Norwich) Getting lithium monitoring under pharmacy control (presented by Dr Malcolm Barrett-Johnson)
2005 No award -
2006 Denise Taylor, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bath University Determining Attitudes to the Prescribing of medicines for Dementia
2007 No award -

 

Posters and Oral Presentations at Annual Conference

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Year Poster Oral
1988
  1. Morag Martin (Glasgow) - benzodiazepine withdrawal regimens
  2. Paul Foster ? Antipsychotic equivalent doses?
Hilde Storkes (Barnsley General Hospital). lithium liquid
1989
  1. ?
  2. Stephen Bazire (Norwich) - Psychotropic Aide Memoire, a fore-runner of the Psychotropic Drug Directory
?
1990
  1. Alison Adams and Stephen Bazire (Norwich) - Bespoke patient information leaflets
  2. Carol Paton and Brian Tissington (Bexley) - training and education book
Commended Dave Branford (Leicester) - Appropriate use of valproate TDM
  1. Helen Baxter (Leeds) - lithium and ACE inhibitors interaction
  2. Graham Parton (Leicester) - lithium side effects
1991
  1. Lynn Haygarth (Leeds) - use of clonidine and naltrexone
  2. Dominique-Jeanne Lepaux (France) and Jacqueline Surugue (Allones) - Nosocomial infections in French Psychiatric Hospitals
  1. Carol Paton (Bexley) - carbamazepine use
  2. Dora Greenway - clozapine in chronic schizophrenia
  3. Linda Fellows (Graylands) and Diedre Alderton (Western Australia) - pharmacist input on prescribing
1992
  1. David Branford (Leicester) - prevalence of TD in LD
  2. Marjorie Stoddart (Wirral) - prescribing evaluation
  3. Linda Rossiter and Christopher Mitchell (Sunderland) - lithium monitoring chart
  1. Brett Hill (Cardiff) - depot antipsychotics review
  2. John Donoghue (Liverpool) - problems with drugs on discharge
1993
  1. Nader Siabi (Herts and Essex)
  2. Moinuddin Kolia (Blackburn) - a drug investigation
  1. Jennie Day (Liverpool) - LUNSERS
  2. Julie Wilson (Sheffield) - Pharmacists, community care and LD
1994 Wing Lee (Prescot) - information on side effects
Christine Maslem (Bath) - community pharmacist involvement
Shared prize:
John Hunter and Stephen Bazire (Norwich) - risk factors in depression relapse
Carol Paton (Bexley) - high dose neuroleptics
1995 Morag Martin (Glasgow) - multidisciplinary approach to improving prescribing
Clare Daly (Norwich, joint first prize for posters) - patient medicine education programme
Rosie Lapsley (Stevenage)
Celia Feetam (Birmingham) - Romanian project
1996
  1. Dr. Jennie Day (Liverpool)
  2. Rob Holmes and colleagues (London)
  1. Helen Shaw (Glasgow)
  2. Kathryn Carter (Leicester)
1997
  1. Helen Shaw (Woodilee Hospital)
  2. Stephen Bazire (Norwich) - web site for patients www.nmhc.co.uk, later becoming www.nwmhp.nhs.uk/pharmacy
  1. Jean Stubbs (Northampton) - olanzapine study
  2. Christine Hastie (Caterham)
Special awards: Catherine Fewster (Preston) and Carol Paton (Bexley).
1998
  1. Carol Paton (Bexley)
  2. Lynn Haygarth (Leeds)
Highly commended Veronica Dennis
  1. Nurjehan Moledina (London)
  2. Shimeem Mir (London)
1999
  1. Diane Harris (Derby) - investigating community pharmacists roles
  1. Denise Duncan-McConnell (London) - patient education
    Stuart Banham (Oxleas, Bexley) - clinical governance publications
    Betsy Wilkie - patient information leaflets for people with learning disabilities
2000 Carol Paton (Bexley), Graham Newton (Liverpool) and Sarah Beck (Kent) Shubhra Mace (Maudsley)
2001
  1. Joy Nicholson, Edinburgh (QA system to manage patients on high-dose antipsychotics)
  2. Petra Brown, Manchester (Effectiveness of clozapine in a population-based mirror-image study)
  3. Diane Harris, Derby (Compliance and care for elderly people with mental health problems)
  1. Pat Morgan, Abergavenney (near-patient lithoum clinic)
  2. Lee Knowles, Oldham (non-clinical factors affecting prescribing of antipsychotics in secure units)
2002
  1. Fiona Couper and Orla Daly, Catterbridge (An investigation of in-patient lithium therapy management)
  2. Bren Holmes and Stephen Bazire, Norwich (The trials and tribulations of setting up a county-wide lithium database)
  3. Claire Norton, John Marriott and Sima Iftikhar, (A review of the use of antipsychotics in child and adolescent psychiatric patients)
  1. Jayne Kinder and Emma Cutler, Derby (A mental health Pharmacy admission support service)
  2. Graham Newton and Janet Ward, Liverpool (Serum clozapine concentration assays - re-engineering a local service)
2003
  1. Kiran Parmar, (Clozapine Assay)
  2. Pat Morgan, Powis (Lithium "on the spot" testing)
  3. Gail Healey, Basildon and Thurrock, An audit of co-prescribing of atypical and conventional antipsychotics
  1. Shubra Mace, Maudsley (An audit of Risperdal Consta)
  2. Joan Miller and Janette McEwan, Bolton, Salford and Trafford (Clozapine home delivery service)
2004
  1. Carol Paton, Radia Esop and Chike Okocha, Bexley
  2. Ian Maidment, Kent, use of Anticholinesterases in Parkinson's Disease Dementia: a critical analysis of benefits
  1. Joan Miller, Salford, clozapine red alert

    Editor's note: have I missed anything here? Please let me know.
2005
  1. Producing drug information videos for deaf service users; Ciara Sarah Hallows and Caroline Falconbridge (Birmingham)
  2. Dr Dave Branford (Derby), e-learning in mental health education

    Highly commended:

    Corina Young and Dr. David Taylor (Maudsley), a mirror image study of Risperdal Consta

    Deborah Reeves (Plymouth), development of pharmacy services to a Community Mental health team

    Paul Deslandes, L Raitt, Arwel Thomas and RDF Sewell (Cardiff); the effectiveness of antimuscarinic agents in the treatment of clozapine-induced hypersalivation

    Carol Paton (Bexley) Outcomes after switching to generic clozapine
  1. Ray Lyons (Sussex), Utilising PANSS-EC scoring to minimise the risks of parenteral rapid tranquillisation Highly commended:

    Walter Broekema, Will the pharmacist become a film producer? Videoclips as a Quality Improvement Tool

    Paul Deslandes, Cardiff, Is reducing dopaminergic function a forgotten factor in suicidality associated with SSRIs?
2006
  1. Stephen Bleakley (London) - What antipsychotic would you take yourself?
  2. Lynn Haygarth and Dr K Zehry - clinican views of Risperdal Consta (Leeds)
  3. Maria McIntyre (Essex) - The prescribing of drugs for the side effects of antipsychotics
  4. Salwa Morcos (Kent) - What does CAT teach us?
  1. Ciara Hallows (Birmingham) - Using BSL for patient information
2007
  1. Erica Young
  2. Joan Miller
  1. John Donoghue (Liverpool) - hypnotic prescribing in depression
  2. Pat Morgan (Abergavenney) - olanzapine audit
  3. Justine Raynsford (Leeds) - carers group medication education

 

2008 Service Developments
1= Ann Andrews, Bev Reilly; Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, Medicine Administration – a dual role?
1= Nikki Holmes, Stuart Dysart; North Shore Hospital, New Zealand. Off our trolley – the evolution of provision for emergency equipment within Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatric Services
Research
1. Akram G, Thomson AH, Boyter AC, Morton MJS; Glasgow and Clyde Health Board / Strathclyde. Characteristics and evaluation of UK ADHD web-sites
Audits / Surveys
1. Rebecca Potter, Jill Titterton, Laraine Tuplin, Beverley Thompson, Alison MacKinnon; Derby Mental Health Services, Interface audit - GP practise recording of clozapine and SMI registers
2. Justine Raynsford; Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, Survey of medication taken by clients in a managed clinical network for Personality Disorder

Presentations
1. Caroline Parker, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Medication Management clinic

2. Amanda Wheeler, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand, Clinical Review and Audit of Antipsychotic Prescribing in Schizophrenia