Last year around July time Jane, Marjorie and I submitted an application for funding to the Pharmaceutical Trust for Educational and Charitable Objects . We did this because we wanted to be able to recruit community pharmacists to take part in our study because of the impact that expertise, knowledge of and practice of a task has a huge impact on the amount of mental workload experienced when that task is being carried out. Our study takes about 1 hour 30 minutes for participants to complete and so we knew that without this funding we would be asking an awful lot of pharmacies and community pharmacists.
We are very pleased to announce that we were successful in our application for funding from PTECO. This means that we will be able to reimburse pharmacies for the cost of providing locum cover whilst their community pharmacists take part in our study. It is still up to the individual pharmacist whether they would or wouldn’t like to take part, but thanks to PTECO, the pharmacists who would like to take part, can take part during their normal working day and not use one of their precious annual leave days to take part.
As a young researcher I am very grateful for this opportunity that PTECO have given us and we are hopeful that by working with PTECO that the results will make an impact on pharmacy practice through the promotion of the results through PTECO’s networks.
So as you can see very exciting times are ahead for this project!
You can also read more about this funding on the University of Bath news page and in the January edition of Professional Matters from the Pharmaceutical Journal.
