HIVPA Annual Conference 2015
Friday 12th June 2015
Radisson Blu hotel
Birmingham
HIVPA Committee
- Co-Chair – Nadia Naous
- Co-Chair – Sharon Byrne
- Deputy Chair/Treasurer/Conference Lead – Sacha Pires
- Industry Lead – Conor Moran
- IT Lead – Neal Marshall
- eHIVe & Education – Lucy Hedley
- Mentorship & Training – Jill Swan
- Technician Lead – Carol Wilkinson
- Regional Reps Lead – Alison Boyle
- HIVPA Bulletin – Alison Darley
- Secretariat – Marina Davidson
HIVPA Expert Panel
A source of expert advice on HIVPA business and consultations
- Rosy Weston – St Mary’s Hospital
- Heather Leake Date – Brighton & Sussex Hospital
- Leonie Swaden – Royal Free London
- Sonali Sonecha – Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
- Mel Snelling – Oxford University Hospital
- Adele Torkington – North Manchester General
HIVPA External Roles
- Infectious Diseases CRG: Adele Torkington
- HIV CRG drugs subgroup: Leonie Swaden
- North central sector representative, London drugs & therapeutics/audit and outcomes group: Leonie Swaden
- BASHH Hepatitis Guidelines & NICE hep C consultations: Adele Torkington
- HIV Clinical Reference Group PrEP guidelines working group: Sonali Sonecha
- Reference group for the MEDFASH one-year national clinical audit of HIV/STI feasibility study commissioned by HQIP: Lucy Hedley and Nadia Naous
BHIVA External Roles
- BHIVA opportunistic infection guidelines: Rosy Weston
- BHIVA HIV-1 treatment guidelines: Neal Marshall
- BHIVA standards of care working group: David Ogden
- BHIVA HIV and hepatitis B/C co-infection: Dola Awoyemi & Sheena Castelino
- BHIVA TB/HIV c0-infection guidelines: Jen Waterfield & Funme Awosusi
- BHIVA Pregnancy Guidelines: Kate Gandhi
Main Expenses & Savings for 2014
Expenses
- Conference: Savings > £10K
- Study Days
- Secretariat: Saving on conference and study days – long term
Savings
- Clinical Pharmacy Congress
- Bulletin
- Consistently saving: £14K/year
- Long-term investment
Future Plans for 2015 onwards
Investments
- RPS
- Website
- eHIV modules
- Regional meetings
Secretariat
- Improved organisation
- Cost saving
- Engagement with membership
Losses
- Abbvie excellence award
- Viiv adobe connect
Future Opportunities
- Generic companies
- Mentorship
- Short and long term investment and planning
Industry update
7 main sponsors maintained for 2015
Abbvie, Janssen, Mylan, Viiv, MSD, BMS & Gilead
Sponsorship extras stopped this year
- Adobe connect
- Excellence award
Approach made to generic companies for a reduced sponsorship package
Aurobindo, Sandoz, Roche, Wockhardt & Accord
Nil secured yet, discussions ongoing
Sponsors evening
Tues 18th August 6-8pm
Pullman Hotel 101 Euston Road, NW1 2AJ
All Welcome!
HIVPA Sponsors
New HIVPA Website
New Website
- Will be ready to roll next week
- Easier to navigate and more secure
- Will need to reset password
New Logo Options
Bulletin
eHIVe Update
- Paediatrics module received
- Introduction to HIV module as a training package–been reviewed by EP
- Immunology module – still in progress
- Hepatitis- awaiting confirmation for use of DI table
- All need converting to eHIVe format on new website
HIVPA Mentorship And Training
- HIVPA Mentoring Scheme standards finalised
- Development of training pack for non-specialist HIV pharmacists to support those new to the specialist area and those pharmacists working within outsourced hospital outpatient dispensaries (eHIVe module)
Technician Update
- There are currently 10 Pharmacy technician HIVPA members
- Once again, new technician members were offered FREE membership for 2015
- Free membership offered in 2014 6 of those members continued (paid) membership this year. We had 4 new technician members for 2015
- Third year of having parallel sessions for technicians and junior pharmacists at conference
- 10 FREE conference spaces offered to technicians
Regional Reps Update
Linked into email support
- Scotland: Elspeth Boxall
- Wales: Fiona Clark
- North of England: Rachel Vincent
- West Midlands: Justine Barnes
- East Midlands: Alison Darley
- South East Coast & London: John Beale
- East Anglia: Portia Jackson
- South West: Jo Latimer
- South Central: Anita Bhardwaj
- Northern Ireland: Paul Rafferty
HIVPA Bulletin
- Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the bulletin and conference feedback in the last year
- We are no longer using Clinical Pharmacist as our publisher
- Producing the bulletin independently gives us more freedom over frequency and size of each edition
- Next issue will be out very soon
- Plan for 2 issues before the end of the year
- Always looking for authors for future editions!
Clinical Pharmacy Congress
- Clinical pharmacy conference held at London ExCel
- Attended by 1270 clinical pharmacist from around the UK
- HIVPA is an educational partner
- 45 minute presentation slot
- 2015: Sonali Sonecha gave a talk on update on HIV
- 2014: Heather Leake Date spoke about HIV top 10 need to knows
- HIVPA had a spot in the clinical specialists hub
- Excellent opportunity to promote HIV awareness and HIVPA to a wide audience
RPS & Faculty
- Official affiliated partner so collaboration with other clinical groups and RPS
- Partnership day at RPS conference
- Publishing platform with the PJ for selected abstracts which will be assessed by panel of clinical group experts
- Faculty Accreditation will involve expert from clinical groups who have to be faculty fellows