The award-winning pharmacy team (pictured L-to-R): Karen Glasper, Dr Julia Blagburn and Ben Fatemi
A NORTH-EAST doctor has won a national award at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Awards.
Dr Julia Blagburn, senior lead clinical pharmacist for older people’s medicine and community health at the Newcastle Hospitals, won the clinical pharmacist of the year award at this year’s awards.
Dr Blagburn received her award in recognition of the positive outcomes of a 12 month project called ‘REACH’, with the aim of preventing medication-related, emergency readmissions to hospital.
The project was developed with colleagues Karen Glasper, a pharmacy technician focusing on home follow up, and Ben Fatemi, a pharmacist who helped develop the REACH model.
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