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JAC Advance Access published online on August 29, 2007
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkm335
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Improving practice—working together to improve the use of antimicrobials

Jonathan Cooke1,*, Peter Davey2, Hayley Wickens3, Ann Jacklin4, Conor Jamieson5, Ysobel Gourlay6, Kieran Hand7 and Sally Wellsteed8

1 Pharmacy and Medicines Management, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M23 9LT, UK 2 Health Informatics Centre, Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee DD2 4BF, UK 3 Pharmacy Department, St Mary's NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK 4 Pharmacy Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK 5 Pharmacy Department, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK 6 Pharmacy Department, Gartnavel General Hospital, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK 7 Pharmacy Department, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK 8 Department of Health, London SE1 8UG, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44-161-291-4195; Fax: +44-161-291-2285; E-mail: jonathan.cooke{at}smtr.nhs.uk or jonathan.cooke{at}manchester.ac.uk

The Hospital Pharmacy Initiative was a Department of Health funded programme in England between 2003 and 2006. It has produced a number of benefits that are organizational, educational, professional, clinical and economic. The opportunity to share experiences, identify what works well and collaborate across national boundaries to address a problem that is taxing all governments and NHS acute trusts and causes considerable concern to patients and their families should be a common goal for the UK.

Key Words: antimicrobial management , antibiotic pharmacist , prescribing practice antibacterials , antibiotic policy , antibiotic management , pharmacist


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