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SUMMARY:APTUK 2024 Conference and Exhibition
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DESCRIPTION:The APTUK 2024 Professional Conference and Exhibition was another huge sell out success! Read about the event, award winners and poster finalists below.\n\nAPTUK 2024 Annual Professional Conference and Exhibition Reflections from Emma Green, Editorial Assistant APTUK\n\n“What happens if we do?” \n\nThese captivating words from our president Nicola Stockmann have not left me since the conference. What an amazing and inspiring experience the whole event was.\n\nThe theme for this year’s conference was ‘Shaping the Future’, and it has never looked brighter for pharmacy technicians.\n\nThe two days were jam-packed with incredible speakers, who provided regulatory and professional updates from bodies such as NHS England, GPhC, Chief Pharmaceutical Office and CPPE. The choice of parallel sessions meant that I was able to attend things that not only interested me outside of my current role, such as a session on the role of pharmacy technicians in offender health by Chelsea Harris and Ellie Pepper, and how we can create a better future for vulnerable people by Katherine Watkinson, but also sessions that have made me look at my current role differently, such as the PCN session by Samantha Garside.\n\nThe poster submissions were all excellent – voting was not easy! It was, however, easy to see how much effort had gone into this work, and how much pride these pharmacy technicians had in their role, and how much of a difference they have made to the patients in their care.\n\nThe awards ceremony was the perfect outlet to showcase some of the amazing work that is taking place, and of course to watch everyone let their hair down! And who could forget the awe-inspiring story of Jonny Benjamin and Neil Laybourn – I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house! Their emotional journey showed us just how important even the seemingly smallest of human interaction can be.\n\nAll in all, my first conference experience was amazing. It was a great opportunity to meet other pharmacy technicians and celebrate the remarkable things we are achieving as a profession. So, to those of you who are on the fence about attending in future, I have only one question for you – what happens if you do?\n\nAPTUK 2024 Pharmacy Technician Awards Winners\n\nAll awards are open to members and non-members of APTUK. Details of the winners for the prestigious APTUK Pharmacy Technician Awards can be found here: APTUK 2024 Award Winners\n\nMore information about the categories can be found here: APTUK 2024 Award Categories\n\nThe Katherine Miles Poster Awards The APTUK Annual Professional Conference & Exhibition gives Pharmacy Technicians (members and non-members) a platform to showcase their projects and achievements through posters. \n\nThe Katherine Miles award is named after the founder of APTUK.  The poster award recognises the diverse practice of Pharmacy Technicians by sharing best practice, innovation, research and education and development.  \n\nThere are 4 prizes: 1st, 2nd , 3rd , identified by independent judges, and a 4th prize is awarded for the delegates choice, based on voting during day 1 of the confernce.  To see the full posters, please click on the links below. \n\n1st: Improving antibiotic allergy documentation:addressing the challenge\nConnell, V; Ting, LX, Antimicrobial stewardship team, University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) Trust\n\n2nd and Delegates Choice award: A medicine administration under protocol (MAUP): Allowing pharmacy technicians to issue laxatives to patients presenting with constipation in clozapine clinics\n\n3rd:  How Pharmacy Technicians working in clozapine clinics have improved outcomes for patients\nNatalie Auld, Amanda Taylor, Ingela Nadeem and Katherine Heyworth, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust\n\n
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