Forty-eight posters from the Republic of Ireland will be presented at the North South Pharmacy Healthcare Conference. These posters represent a diversity of research projects undertaken in all areas of pharmacy practice in this country.

• Developing new roles for the Pharmaceutical Technician: the Provision of Non-Stock Medicines to the Wards by Technicians - C. Bogue & C. Keane
• Extemporaneous Compounding Quality Assurance in Community Pharmacy - A. Brogan, J. Strawbridge, A. Clohessy
• Attitudes of community pharmacists in Ireland to dispensing errors and a reporting system for such errors - D. Burns & T. Grimes
• The Audit and Development of a Care Plan for Osteoporosis Prophylaxis and Treatment in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital - M. Creed, J. Strong & C. Meegan
• Are prescribers' intentions met when prescriptions are dispensed? - A. Crehan & T. Grimes
• Accuracy of Medication Prescribing in Elective Admission Patients in a Tertiary Referral Teaching Hospital - E. Crimin & N. O'Hanlon
• Patient Medication Review by a Community Pharmacist in Ireland - B. Dalton & S. Ryder
• Management of anaemia of chronic renal failure in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients: a process improvement approach for better patient outcomes - D. Davin, T. Delaney, C. O'Brady & V. Heaney
• Palliative Care Pharmacist in Donegal Hospice and Letterkenny General Hospital (LGH) - A. Devenney & T. Ferrie
• Evaluation of the need for a pharmacist on the Palliative Care Team in St. James's Hospital, Dublin - C. Donnelly, E. Relihan, F. King, R. Adams, & K. Sabra
• Comparative Study between the role of Hospital Pharmacists in Spain and Ireland - L. Echeazarra L. & Z. Gonzalez
• The Establishment of an Antimicrobial Usage Database, and the Demonstration of its Use as an Audit Tool to Investigate the Appropriateness of Prescribing of the Antimicrobial Pipericillin-Tazobactam - S.M. Egan, C. Kirke & M. Doyle
• Take Time to Make Time - C. Field, J. Brown, P. Heckmann & C. Meegan
• The Role of the Pharmaceutical Technician in Medicines Information - A. Flynn & N. O'Hanlon
• Perceptions of Medicines by Children in Ireland - F. Foley & S. Ryder
• An Audit on the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Service in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda - A. French
• A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Implementing a Tight Glycaemic Control Policy in the AMNCH Intensive Care Unit - C. Gowing, S. Connors, K. Wilkin & M. Donnelly
• Medicines, Herbals, Foods and Disease States that may Interact with Warfarin: Development of a Practice Resource for Community Pharmacists - C. Gowing & O. Sheehan
• Changes Made to Prescriptions during Hospital Stay: What do General Practitioners and Community Pharmacists want to know? - T. Grimes, E. Deasy, T. Delaney & J. Kelly
• Benzodiazepine prescribing: Impact of the Benzodiazepine Committee's Report - R.F. Harte, O.I. Corrigan & S.A. Ryder
• The Pharmacy On-call Service at AMNCH: Smoothing the Path for an Effective, Efficient Documentation and Induction Process - J. Hayde & C. O'Brady
• Why are we busier? - P. Heckmann, J. Brown & C. Meegan
• Development of a Template for Answering a Liver Medicines Information Query - F. Kennedy
• Developing the Role of a Technician in a Clinical Setting - L. Kerr
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education: A Systematic Approach to Improving Prescribing - M. Kieran, M. Creed & C. Meegan
• Paediatric Competencies: A Training Tool for Clinical Pharmacists - N. Kilcullen, A. Allen, & S. Moran
• Use of Probiotics in Clostridium Difficile Infection - C. Kingston & C. Monaghan
• Evaluation of Impact of a Ward-based Technician Service on Drug Availability on Wards - J. Mcgillycuddy, E.M. Deasy, A. Coke, M. Sanders & F. Glynn
• Audit of Intravenous to Oral Antimicrobial Switch Therapy in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital - R. McGrath, N. Scanlon & C. Meegan
• Medication Reconciliation: Improving the Process - C. McManamly & C. Gowing
• The Quality Cycle; Improving Hospital In-Patient Prescribing and Administration - C. Meegan, M. McGuirk & M. Kieran
• The Introduction of a New Policy and Guidelines for the Assessment and Documentation of Drug Allergies - C. Meegan, M. McGuirk, M. Kieran & B. Maloney
• The Introduction of Once-Daily Tobramycin Dosing in the National Referral Centre for Adult Cystic Fibrosis at St. Vincent's University Hospital - C. Muldowney & C. Keane
• How can Advances in Pharmacy Information Technology improve patient care and clinical practice in St. Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH)? - D. Mulvihill
• Quality of Health Information on the Internet - N. Murphy & S. Ryder
• Community Pharmacy Services for Type 2 Diabetics - F. Nash & S. Ryder
• A Clinical Pharmacist-led Evaluation of Post-operative Pain Management at AMNCH - L. Neville & C. O'Brady
• Accident and Emergency: is there a need for a clinical pharmacist? - A. Nevin & K. Feeley
• DUMP: Past, Present and Future - D. O'Driscoll
• Reaching Out to People with Mental Illness - D. O'Driscoll, A. Clohessy, F. McNicholas, C. Fitzpatrick, N. Turner, E. O'Callaghan, J. Redican, C. Brogan & O. Sheehan
• Read the Label, Understand the Directions - C. Reilly & J. D'Arcy
• Pharmacy Input in Geriatric Discharge/Transfer from a General Hospital - M. Ryan, M. McDevitt, L.Kerr, M. McMonagle & A. Wangerin
• Verification study and audit of frequency, type and clinical importance of medication errors conducted on in-patient prescriptions - L. Sahm, A. Murphy, O. Murphy, M. Brennan, M. Forde & M. Owens
• An Audit of Vancomycin in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital - N. Scanlon, A. Hanevey & C. Meegan
• Back To The Future: A CPD Toolkit for Ireland - O. Sheehan, P. Mason, K. Hogson, N Scanlon, T. Grimes, C. Gowing, N. Stenson R. Dungan, S. O'Driscoll, E. Hoctor, B. Quinlan, F. Leonard, D. McDermott, P. Benav, M. McCarthy, M. Periata, A.M. Cushen, N. Boden, J. Cronin, R. O'Connell.
• A review of the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital - G. Treacy, A. Seoighe & C. Meegan
• Trial of an Automated Medication Dispensing System in Letterkenny General Hospital - A.Wangerin, M. McMonagle & T. Ferrie
• Screening for diabetes in community pharmacy - C. Weir & S. Ryder

To view a provisional conference schedule, click here.

To view a listing of oral presentations from the Republic of Ireland, click here.

To view information on application procedures for the conference, click here.

To view information on the conference venue and how to get there, click here.