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13th December 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm

Antimicrobial Stewardship Update

We welcome back Elizabeth Beech, plus Naomi Fleming, who are both Regional NHSE Antimicrobial Stewardship leads.

They will update us on all things “Antimicrobials” including their use in UTIs / skin infections, overall duration of Antibiotic courses and explain how to use the new Antimicrobial dashboards to help you influence prescribing in your practices.

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PrescQIPP 2023 Award winning projects in general practice

29th November 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm

We heard about two brilliant medicines optimisation priority projects in general practice.

One, about the success of an antidepressant deprescribing clinic by Raz Saleem and the Medicines Management team at South Yorkshire ICB. The second, about hypertension case finding, diagnosis and treatment by Beth Rushton from the Nottingham West PCN pharmacy team.

They both inspired you to stop , think and re-focus about what is possible for your 2024 MO stewardship plans.

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Medication Safety Research into Primary Care Practice

18th October 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm

Dr Richard Keers, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Pharmacy at the University of Manchester bought us all up to date about medication safety research relevant to general practice, in particular the future of clinical decision support systems such as PINCER and improving the safety of mental health prescribing.

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Medico-legal prescribing issues in practice

27th September 2023 – 12.45 – 13.45pm

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 and discussed 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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