Gillian Cavell MSc, FFRPS, MRPharmS

Dr. Gillian Cavell, deputy director of pharmacy, medication safety, at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, was the winner of the GHP/UKCPA joint poster award, sponsored by Sanofi Aventis.

Cavell compared the prescribing skills of second year foundation (F2) junior doctors, who had done their first year foundation (F1) training at other trusts, with the skills of F1 junior doctors who had recently attended the F1 safe prescribing workshop held at KCL. The F1 trainees scored better than the F2 trainees. Ms Cavell concluded that until F1 training is standardised, the F2 training programme at KCL will need to include more core F1 elements.