FLAG-Me today received the news that they have been chosen to receive £3,020 Flying Starter Award from The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre at The University of Manchester.
This will fund a short project with Imago software students from Department of Computer Science to work with patients with vision impairments (VI) and community pharmacists.
Together they will co-produce a ‘walking skeleton‘ for a pharmacy alert,
which notifies pharmacists which patients have VI and therefore might benefit from a 1:1 consultation to improve medication safety.
This idea arose from co-design events funded by NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (PSTRC) which brought together patients and pharmacists to look at the problems they encountered around medication safety and what solutions might help.
Dr Lisa Riste, Research Fellow from PSTRC said, “I am very grateful to MEC for this award, which will start to turn the concept of FLAG-Me into a reality“.