Congratulations to Dr Diarmuid Quinlan, a GP in Cork and MPS clinical risk assessment facilitator, and his colleague, GP and pharmacist Dr Paul Ryan, who won the Quality in Practice (QIP) award at the ICGP annual conference in Galway in May.
Their winning entry was a patient-held alert card to improve the safe prescribing, usage and monitoring of methotrexate. Ireland has four times the UK adverse event rate for patients using methotrexate. The pair wrote about their study in the January 2013 edition of Casebook.