Alcohol screening intervention in community pharmacies
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Research teams at the College comprising nursing experts from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, in collaboration with Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT), have received funding to implement and evaluate a brief alcohol screening intervention in community pharmacies.
Professor Ian Norman and Ranjita Dhital from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in collaboration with Dr Cate Whittlesea and Dr Karen Rosenbloom (Pharmacy Department), Dr Paul McCrone (Institute of Psychiatry) and colleagues in Lambeth PCT have been awarded a New Services and Innovations in Healthcare grant of £258,000 by St Thomas's Charity to implement a screening and brief alcohol intervention in community pharmacies in Lambeth and to evaluate its clinical effects, cost and sustainability.
The project will utilize and enhance existing skills of community pharmacists to conduct brief alcohol interventions. It will help increase the knowledge and understanding about alcohol misuse of pharmacists (through training and conducting the intervention) and of pharmacy customers (through being screened and advised on safe drinking). The project will evaluate if brief alcohol intervention led by community pharmacists is feasible and effective at reducing and preventing harm from alcohol misuse.
Professor Ian Norman and Ranjita Dhital from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in collaboration with Dr Cate Whittlesea and Dr Karen Rosenbloom (Pharmacy Department), Dr Paul McCrone (Institute of Psychiatry) and colleagues in Lambeth PCT have been awarded a New Services and Innovations in Healthcare grant of £258,000 by St Thomas's Charity to implement a screening and brief alcohol intervention in community pharmacies in Lambeth and to evaluate its clinical effects, cost and sustainability.
The project will utilize and enhance existing skills of community pharmacists to conduct brief alcohol interventions. It will help increase the knowledge and understanding about alcohol misuse of pharmacists (through training and conducting the intervention) and of pharmacy customers (through being screened and advised on safe drinking). The project will evaluate if brief alcohol intervention led by community pharmacists is feasible and effective at reducing and preventing harm from alcohol misuse.