27th August 2020 – 12:45 to 13:45
This session, led by Dr Mike Scanlan, aimed to equip participants with a range of applicable and common sense approaches and tools that can help patients to manage anxiety, cope with physical discomfort, and maintain psychological wellbeing whilst coming off medication.
19th August 2020 – 12:45 to 13:45
We will continue to aim to make you “Stop, Think & Re-focus” to support you in your role to optimise medicine use for your local population.
We will be joined by 2 external speakers, Hetal Dhruve, a specialist respiratory pharmacist & clinical respiratory lead, for City and Hackney CCG and Darren Ashcroft, the Foundation Chair in Pharmacoepidemiology, at the University of Manchester.
27th July – 13:00 to 14:00
On 27th July, we welcomed Professor Nina Barnett, Consultant Pharmacist for Older People, who presented a webinar describing the key features of the Structured Medication Review within the Primary Care Network Contract DES.
15th July 2020 – 12:45 to 13:45
This month we were joined by the vastly experienced Clare Howard, Clinical Lead Medicines Optimisation at Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).
She talked about why and how we can all best use the comparators to aid structured medication Review (SMR) patient selection.
17th June 2020 – 12:45 to 13:45
We continued to aim to make you “Stop, Think & Re-focus” to support you in your role to optimise medicine use for your local population.
This month we were joined by Jamie Hayes, an executive coach with a twenty-five-year career in healthcare, medical education, and behavioural change. A clinical pharmacist by background, Jamie is recognised as a forward thinking, innovative leader, with a flair for communication and the ability to inspire and motivate individuals.
