27th September 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Medico-legal prescribing issues in practice
A specially curated webinar with medical litigation lawyer Stephen Webber along with Dr Julian Treadwell, Research Fellow and GP at Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science. Steve Williams, also works as a Clinician expert in NHS Resolution legal cases involving prescribing by Drs and Pharmacists, will be discussing this topic with them.
16th August 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Katie Smith, our Director of Clinical Quality at PrescQIPP, joined us to demonstrate how to get the most from using the updated PrescQIPP Deprescribing Impact tool before and during SMRs with patients with Polypharmacy.
19th July 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Emma Foreman is a Consultant Pharmacist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and a newly appointed Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. She continued to discuss this topic and present case studies to help us to consider how best to perform medication reviews empathetically in people with active malignancies, always a tricky subject.
21st June 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Dr Julian Treadwell is a Research Fellow and GP at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences who has just launched a seminal new website (GPevidence.org) to aid good conversations about treatment choices.
He explained his research about clinician’s difficulties understanding and communicating risks / benefits and how pharmacy professionals can use the website to support clinical judgement and shared decisions with patients during consultations.
24th May 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Emma Foreman is a Consultant Pharmacist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and a newly appointed Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. She helped us to consider how best to perform medication reviews empathetically in people with active malignancies, always a tricky subject. Emma will be presenting Part 2 on 19th July 2023.
19th April 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Michelle Phillips, Senior Pharmacy Technician, at Living Well PCN outlined how pharmacy technicians are fully utilised within a large PCN Pharmacy team in Hampshire.
Kerry Street is Lead Pharmacist – Education, Training & Safety and Dorset Pharmacy Workforce Faculty Lead. She talked to us about her fascinating research in the role of ‘clinical’ pharmacy technicians a PCN setting.
15th March 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Dr Joanne Reeve is a Consultant in Primary Care Medicine and Professor of Primary Care Research at Hull York Medical School.
She recently led a massive Health Technology Assessment synthesising the research literature to help understand how best to support deprescribing in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy.
She shared her team’s insights about the need to support structured approaches to deprescribing and highlighted the need to integrate patient-centred and contextual factors into best practice models.
15th February 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Alison Smith is a Prescribing Support Consultant Dietitian and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances (ACBS).
She has worked closely with PrescQIPP for a number of years on enteral nutrition and talked about all things related to Medicines Optimisation and Nutrition Prescribing. We also invited Will Slocombe-Morency from Jurassic Coast PCN who presented on SMR automated bookings.
18th January 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
Delia Bishara, Consultant Pharmacist in Mental Health of Older Adults & Dementia from South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, has recently been involved in the development of an excellent new resource about the appropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medication in dementia. She helped us navigate this difficult therapeutic area, using real cases to apply the guidance.
14th December 2022 – 12.45 – 13.45pm
We heard about two great MO projects that should make you stop, think and refocus.
Rachel Howatson, Senior CVD Pharmacist for SE London, talked about a quality and safety audit of direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) prescribing and monitoring. She covered its impact on patient safety outcomes alongside remodelling of SEL interface pathways for DOAC patients, local DOAC prescribing guidance for the ICS and DOAC monitoring process development.
Caryn Chan, Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist NECS, told us about a novel risk assessment tool CATALYST which identifies patients with an inaccurate label of penicillin allergy for de-labelling without direct oral penicillin challenge in primary care.
