Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe

The Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) was established in 1994  and it became an official association (under Dutch law) in 2004.
Pharmaceutical Care is the pharmacist's contribution to the care of individuals, in order to optimize medicines use and improve health outcomes.

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6th PCNE Working Conference 2009, Vimeiro, Portugal

Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care Research

4-7 March 2009


Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care Research Conference Reports

4-7 March 2009

The 6th Working Conference of the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe

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Dear friends, dear colleagues,

It has been a pleasure to see many of you at the Sixth International Working Conference of the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe entitled “Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care research”.

PCNE strongly believes that to develop high quality research, you need to continually update yourself, exchange expertise and experience with colleagues in the same research field. This conference was developed for you to do so, whether you work in education, in industry, as a practitioner or as a researcher.

Many changes have been happening in Europe, which affect, directly and indirectly, pharmaceutical care practice, education and research. The implementation of the Bologna declaration made the change from passive education to a competency-based system compulsory; however, it is still unknown if such a shift will improve fitness to practice.

The deregulation of pharmacy in some countries has made pharmacists react by creating new and more advanced services, available to the overall population or to special patient groups. It is expected that these will constitute new areas of interest for pharmaceutical care research. These are just a few of the innovations in the pharmaceutical care arena that have been debated over these four days of conference.

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A range of first-class experts enriched the conference, with interests in the qualitative and quantitative research methods, education, deregulation, added-value of pharmaceutical care, and new services offered to the patient, among others.

The format of the PCNE working conferences always prioritises the workshops, since PCNE believes that this is a unique occasion for open discussion to flourish, and for new projects to emerge, which will ultimately contribute to maximising the networking capacity of this organization. The poster-discussion session proved to be a great forum for novice and more experienced researchers, this year more than 30 posters were exposed. The Glintt award for best poster was won by Dr. Janet Krska and her team from the Liverpool John Moores University, for a poster entitled: Developing a medicines-related quality of life measure. The ABDA award for the best oral presentation was won by Dr.Peter Tenni and his team, from the University of Tasmania (Australia), with the oral communication about Clinical Interventions in Australian Community Pharmacies. In this websection you will find the results of our hard work in March 2009.

Select what yu want to see in the Tabs above. If you need additional information, please contact the PCNE professional secretariat.

On behalf of the organising committee:

Dr. Filipa Alves da Costa and Dr. Mara Guerreiro

Introductory slides