1. Medicines For Children – The Strength of Working Together
Andy Fox, Principal Pharmacist, Southampton Pharmacy Research Centre (SPRC), Medication Safety Pharmacist

2. Medicines for Children – The Strength of Working Together
Andy Fox,
Chair – Joint Medicines Committee RCPCH/NPP

3. What am I going to do? Use Amusing pictures Hilarious anecdotes
In an attempt to
See the power of working together
Develop curiosity
Inspire you to become involved

4. Who am I?

7. The Medicines Committee – Who?
NPPG Members - Chair
RCPCH Members
Observers
Nurse, ABPI, MHRA, MCRN, RCGP, RCPsych

8. The Medicines Committee – What?
Responding to Consultations
BNFC
Production of Medicines Information leaflets
Work with and Support MCRN
Education and Training
Supporting Clinicians and Pharmacists

9. Examples Tranexamic Acid E – Learning Competency Tests Codeine ESUOM
Competency Tests
Codeine
ESUOM
Vomiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10. Medicines Committee - Future
Children and young persons outcome forum
Delayed antibiotics (RCGP)
Its for you - what do you want it to do?
We get requests for info from clinicians but not so often pharmacists

14. Medicines For Children - Vision
That any parent, wherever they are, have information on their child’s medicines that they need and can trust.
If you
remember before bedtime, give the missed dose. You do not
need to wake up a sleeping child to give a missed dose
Vomitting
Presented all over the place

15. MFC – Facts and Figures 180 Leaflets 21 in production
Strict QA Procedure
Information Standard approved

16. MFC - Stats

17. What makes MFC so damn good?

19. MFC – The Team Kirsten Olson, Jyotsna Vohra, Fallon Mody
Linda Partridge, Jody Blake
Stephen Tomlin/ Helen Sammons
Catrin Barker/David Tuthill

20. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory (1979)
Five environmental systems with which an individual interacts
Influences the study of human beings and their environments

22. Effective public health initiatives address all elements
Obesity –
Healthy eating/5 a day – Individual
Jamie Oliver project - Organisation, interpersonal, individual
Junk food ban in schools - policy

24. Medicines for Children Leaflets
RCPCH/NPPG
MFC Project Group
Members

25. Medicines for Children Leaflets
RCPCH/NPPG
MFC Project Group
Members
Parents/Carers

26. MFC - Parents Parents involved at all stages Template
Individual leaflets
Web pages
Videos

27. What do parents say? ‘I would feel safe using the information’
‘Good to have just one website and know that the information is correct.’
‘The information sheets are easy to read, are well set out and the language used is pitched at the right level.’

28. MFC - Future
Re-accreditation
Funding
Videos
Social networking
You

29. The Strength of Working Together

30. Thank You!