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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.

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PrescQIPP Deprescribing IMPACT tool

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.

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SMRs in patients with active Cancer – Part 2

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.

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Patient Decisions Aids for SDM around preventative medicines

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.

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SMRs in patients with active Cancer – Part 1

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.

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Pharmacy Technicians in Primary Care

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.

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TAILOR project: Deprescribing medicines in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy

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.

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ACBS listed nutrition products – we can think about them as basically the same can’t we

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.

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Appropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medication in dementia

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.

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PrescQIPP Annual Award projects relevant to primary care

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.

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