Katie Smith, Director East Anglia Medicines Information Service

 SPS shortly appointing a head  Funding until March 2016 confirmed, waiting for news post April 2016  UKMI executive will work with head of SPS and the board to implement the recommendations of the review  UKMI to lead development of SPS website  Business as usual

 Membership?  UKMI is an RPS Affiliate

 In use product safety assessments  MI have a regular slot in the monthly MSO webinar  High risk injectable list update?  Possible updates for missing & delayed dose and loading dose toolkits  Continue to provide QA function for Medusa IV monographs

 Who has a helpline?  Well used?  Southampton – 60 calls/month  Active patient follow up on discharge  Support 7 days services?

 No major developments this year  Regional centres piloting sharing enquiries  Tick confidentiality box on completion page – CGWG developed guidance about anonymising records  Long term aim for an internet based version  Keep submitting e-yellow cards!

 Paperwork been revised and developed as a self reflective process  New audit tool to be consulted on and trialed  Hopefully new paperwork in use from Jan 2016  Audits of MI in the RPS hospital pharmacy standards

 Thank you for all your efforts!  Responses from 105/176 MICs = 343 forms  ~10% of enquiries need help from pharma  132 different companies – few big companies, lot of generics  ~80-90% of the time we are satisfied with pharma med info service  Some companies are not great at MI…  Do you make complaint to the manufacturer?  Feedback to PIPA  Reverse survey?

 Laura Kearney (Trent) – CGWG lead for resource documents & updating CoAcS  New Schaefer & Briggs (e-version IE9)  New Maudsley & Psychotropic Drug Directory  Simon Wills working with the Pharmaceutical Press on behalf of UKMI to negotiate pricing deal  Stockley vs Stockley Updates

 Limitations of common info resources updated  PubMed vs. Medline/Embase  NEWT/Drug administration via feeding tubes – use with caution, references out of date  Renal Drug Database – issues and feedback

 Don’t take enquiries at face value – ask questions. Use the UKMI enquiry answering guidelines.  Don’t be pressurised into answering over the phone while looking in resources.  The same applies to follow up questions.  Review enquiries taken in by trainees asap to check high risk issues dealt with in a timely way.  Put enquiries directly onto MiDatabank.  Review the question, answer and research before giving answer out.  Keep resources up to date.  Think about the date past enquiries were answered.  Second check answers.

 East Midlands Hilton Hotel (near jct 24, M1)  Friday 11 th September  Programme almost complete – see website  Registration now open  £75, if required, book B&B yourself £99pppn  Train travel  Posters – submit by 17 th July  MI excellence award – nominate by 10 th July  Who is planning to attend?

Any questions?