Orthogeriatrician, Swansea.
A series of webinars covering different aspects of medication safety. Each tackling a specific topic, transitions of care, polypharmacy, deprescribing and more.
Financial support for this series was provided as an Independent Medical Education Grant from Pfizer Limited.
Safety during transitions of care
In the first of this series, our host Dr Dan Smith talks to experts Dr Maya Kessler, Paresh Jogia and Jennifer Flatman. They discuss strategies to improve medication safety during transitions of care, the importance of accurate medication reconciliation and share best practices for medication management - including the use of technology, communication tools, and patient education. They also explore the role of healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers in preventing medication errors and ensuring safe transitions between hospital admission and discharge.
Speakers
Medicines safety and governance pharmacist, Countess of Chester Hospital.
Community geriatric fellow, Derbyshire.
Senior pharmacist and EPMA project lead, Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Problematic polypharmacy
Our experts discuss the concept of problematic polypharmacy from different perspectives, talking about their own experience and discussing some of the literature. Polypharmacy poses significant challenges in terms of patient safety, national expense, and medication management, as well as having a detrimental impact on the environment.
Speakers
GP and national clinical director for prescribing, NHS England.
Tony is a GP, a professor of primary health care at the University of Nottingham and an NIHR senior investigator. He is also NHS England’s national clinical director for prescribing.
At Nottingham, he and his team developed the pharmacist-led information technology intervention for medication errors – or PINCER - project to tackle hazardous prescribing which was rolled out nationally.
His role as the national clinical director for prescribing is to ensure the prescribing of medicines reflects the needs of the population, improving health outcomes and preventing waste.
GP and prescribing lead.
Lawrence is a partner and GP prescribing lead at a large practice in Bournemouth. He is an RCGP fellow, representing clinical pharmacists. He is also a clinical teaching fellow at the pharmacy and pharmacology school at the University of Bath.
Deprescribing: Safely reducing problematic polypharmacy
This webinar features speaker Dr Lucy Pollock, who discusses case studies in this interactive session. She is joined by Professors Tony Avery and Emma Baker in the discussion and answering audience questions.
Speakers
A consultant geriatrician. She is passionate about sharing her enthusiasm for patient-centred care of older people and is the author of the book about getting older, published in 2021 by Penguin Random House.
A professor of clinical pharmacology and consultant physician in internal medicine at St George's Hospital, London. She has a specialist interest in people who have multiple medical conditions at the same time and take several medications, with a particular focus on lung disease.
She is director of the UK's first BSc in clinical pharmacology, clinical vice president of the British Pharmacological Society and training programme director at Health Education England.
National Clinical Director for Prescribing, and a GP and Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Nottingham. He is also a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator.
He is passionate about ensuring the safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines and has worked in partnership with healthcare professionals and patients over 30 years to drive forward research and policy development in prescribing and patient safety.
