Professor Alison Ewing introduces the Centre for Pharmacy Innovation, a collaboration between Liverpool John Moores University, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, and Lloyds Pharmacy.

1. Centre for Pharmacy Innovation
Innovation through collaboration . . .
Professor Alison B Ewing
Clinical Director of Pharmacy, RLBUHT, LWH & Aintree University Hospital
Professor of Pharmacy Innovation LJMU
Adam Crampsie
Head of Clinical Service Design, LloydsPharmacy

2. Pharmacy Innovation
• First for robotic dispensing 2002
• First purchasing manager
professionally CIPS trained
• First acute Trust to outsource
outpatient dispensing to
LloydsPharmacy in 2008 – an
innovation that would lead to over 60
acute trusts outsourcing their
outpatient dispensing

3. Centre for Pharmacy Innovation:
Conception
• The Centre for Pharmacy Innovation is a tripartite research collaboration
between the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust,
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and LloydsPharmacy
• Formed as a result of . . .
– Difficulties in research collaboration
– Lloydspharmacy & Royal partnership since 2009
– Conversation ‘started’ ~2011
– Changes in Government thinking about pharmacy services - a move to clinical pharmacists working
in community pharmacy and general practice
• Aim – ‘sustain a centre of excellence focusing on clinical pharmacy practice
research, and the education and training of pharmacists and pharmacy
technicians’

5. Two Strands: Research & Education
Research Education

6. Research
• Funded PhD research . . . Models of Care
in the NHS: Patient transfer to primary
care on discharge from hospital
• Discharge problems
• Qualitative research
• Patient involvement
• Registered pharmacist real time
perspective
• New model of care
• Translation into new innovative
processes . . .
• 2 published papers in Eur J Hosp
Pharm
• Research into current processes
with feedback from all users around
issues leading to development of
new pathways

7. Turning Research into Reality
• Outputs of PhD research are now
being used to develop a pilot between
acute trusts and community providers
• Pilot and post-doc will look to measure
the impact of the re-design
• Centre for Pharmacy Innovation using
the breadth of the tripartite
arrangement to make this happen
• Successful pilot could see this adopted
in many more trusts!

8. Additional Projects
• MSc students & courses
• Other sources of external sources of funding
• Enhancing education and research capabilities of workforce
• Chemotherapy closer to home
• HIV – different ways of delivering treatment
• Up skilling pharmacists to work with GPs
• To advance interface and primary/community care practice

9. Education
Centre aims to encourage and inspire inter-
professional, interdisciplinary and inter-
sector integration to facilitate the
aspiration of excellence in the delivery of
health and social care

10. Education
• Development of Teacher Practitioners working at LJMU –
adding real life experience to pharmacy undergraduate course
• PgCert/PgDip/MSc programme in Clinical Pharmacy in Primary
and Interface Care offered at LJMU
– Aimed at pharmacists working in community pharmacies, general medical practices or
hospital outpatient pharmacies operated by community providers
– Benefit from clinical teaching delivered by specialist practising pharmacists
– Optional Independent Prescribing pathway
– Demonstrate best practice on a course aligned to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Foundation Pharmacy Framework

11. Additional Opportunities
• Pharmacists in GP surgeries
• Long term condition
management in the community
• New health & social care funding
• Medication review and new
contracts
• New partners – industry, social
care and private sector
• Multi-trust working increases
opportunities
• Electronic prescription transfer