Great North Pharmacy Research Collaborative Conference 2022

15/07/2022 9:00 am to 15/07/2022 5:00 pm

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The theme for our annual conference was Sustainability in Pharmacy: The health of patients and the planet. 

The conference was chaired by Min Na Eii, Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

Min Na is an Acute Medicine Pharmacist at Sunderland Royal Hospital and Bank NHS 111 Pharmacist for North East Ambulance Service. Vice Chair of Sustainability for Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists. Co-Founder of Pharmacy Declares, a group of climate conscious pharmacy professionals based in the United Kingdom calling for divestment of fossil fuels & positive reinvestments, declaration of climate emergency & climate-health leadership & education. UK’s international liaison for Rx4Climate. Member of Medact North East, an independent public health voice on the social, economic, environmental and other major determinants of health.

Follow Min Na on Twitter @minna_eii

Speaker presentations can be downloaded below

 

James Dixon The Climate Emergency is a Health Emergency

Laura Wilson Environmental Sustainability Leadership in Pharmacy

Mahendra Patel Inclusion and Diversity

Peter Morgan Environmental Sustainability, does pharmacy have a role

Richard Cattell, Pharmacy, Sustainability and the wider NHS

 

Breakout session presentations can be downloaded below

 

Genomic Medicine, worthless or worthwhile

Improving Outcomes for Respiratory Patients

Is our prescribing working

Sustainability in Medicines decision making process

The complexity of making sustainable decisions with patients

Using behaviour change theory to influence prescribing

 

 

 

Venue

Hilton Hotel Newcastle Gateshead, Bottle Bank, Gateshead, NE8 2AR

 

Arriving at the venue

Please make your way to the Gateshead Suite on the ground floor.

Travelling to the venue

The hotel is located overlooking the Tyne Bridge and is less than a mile from Gateshead metro station and eight minutes from the A1 motorway. It is approximately a fifteen-minute walk from Newcastle Central Station

 

Event parking

There is parking onsite. This is at a rate of £4 by using code ‘GNPRC2022’

 

Please visit the link below for all parking options

https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/newcastle_upon_tyne/?arriving=202205141630&leaving=202205141830

 

Cycling

The cycle rack is in the underground car park on floor -2 under the ramp. Bikes can be secured (at your own risk)  The car park is covered by CCTV.

 

Rail and Metro

The Hotel is less than a mile from Gateshead metro station and approximately a fifteen-minute walk from Newcastle Central Station

 

Accommodation

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Min Na Eii

Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner in Acute Medicine

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Vice-Chair of Sustainability The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists

@minna_eii @PharmDeclares @STSFTrust

Acute Medicine Pharmacist at Sunderland Royal Hospital and Bank NHS 111 Pharmacist for North East Ambulance Service. Vice Chair of Sustainability for Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists. Co-Founder of Pharmacy Declares, a group of climate conscious pharmacy professionals based in the United Kingdom calling for divestment of fossil fuels & positive reinvestments, declaration of climate emergency & climate-health leadership & education. UK’s international liaison for Rx4Climate. Member of Medact North East, an independent public health voice on the social, economic, environmental and other major determinants of health.

James Dixon

Sustainability Lead

North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System

@ecoboyatheart @NENC_ICS @NewcastleHosps @SustainableNUTH

James is a Chartered Environmentalist with twenty years’ sustainability experience. This has ranged from working at Newcastle City Council implementing Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001 & EMAS), helping contribute to Newcastle being awarded UK’s Greenest City two years running, to establishing the sector leading Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) programme at Newcastle Hospitals culminating in them becoming the first healthcare organisation in the world to publicly declare a climate emergency, and commit to fast-tracking decarbonisation of their services. James holds Fellowship positions at the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (FIEMA) and the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA) is Vice Chair of the Board at Health Care Without Harm Europe, Chairs the Shelford Group of Sustainability Leads and is Sustainability Lead for the North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System.

Laura Wilson

Policy Lead for Sustainability

RPS Scotland

@lwilson49606 @RPSScotland

Laura is the Practice and Policy Lead for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in Scotland. RPS is the professional leadership body for pharmacists and as part of Laura’s role she leads on the sustainability work across all 3 nations. She has a background in community pharmacy and spent a significant part of her career as an Advanced pharmacist in addictions. Laura also has experience in the education sector having worked as a teacher practitioner at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Laura qualified as an independent prescriber in 2007 and has prescribed in psychiatry as well as addictions.

Peter Morgan

Medicines Net Zero Assistant Director

NHS England and Improvement

@morganpete @NHSEngland @greenerNHS

Peter Morgan is a registered pharmacist and independent having worked in predominantly secondary care specialising in aseptic/technical services and clinical nutrition. He undertook a Chief Pharmaceutical officers fellowship in 2018/19 working on national policy. Peter now leads on the Medicines Net Zero programme at NHS E/I, a workstream of the wider Greener NHS programme.

Professor Mahendra G Patel OBE PhD FRPharmS

Pharmacy, and Inclusion and Diversity Lead PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC trials

University of Oxford

@drmahendrapatel

Professor Mahendra G Patel OBE is a pharmacist and academic of national and international profile with professorial roles in the UK, Malaysia and USA. He is also a former national board member and Treasurer for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and an esteemed member of the Teaching and Faculty Board for the International Chair for Bioethics Programme UNESCO.

Mahendra’s work largely involves supporting evidence-based practice, health promotion and health education, and improving health and health inequalities in ethnic minority and underserved communities. Much of this has led him to being a national and international award winner, including recently the Pharmacy Business Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also one of the first to be awarded a Fellowship from NICE, and first International Fellow of the Indian Pharmaceutical Society.

Mahendra is one of the UK trial leads at University of Oxford in the world’s largest COVID-19 clinical trials in primary care with the PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC trials.

Mahendra was recognised this year for his outstanding work in pharmacy and was awarded an OBE.

Richard Cattell

Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

NHS England and Improvement

@RichardCattell1 @NHSEngland

Richard Cattell has been a pharmacist for 28 years with a career mainly in acute hospitals in the South West, Cardiff and the West Midlands.His most recent roles have included Chief Operating Officer and Chief Pharmacist.Richards’s current role is the Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England and NHS Improvement. In this he focuses on supporting trusts with their care quality, driving the improvement in 7-day pharmacy services, developing aspiring chief pharmacists, and providing the senior medicines leadership to the Medicines Safety Programme.He is passionate about supporting patients and the healthcare team in getting the best from medicines, reducing harm, and improving care.

Audit to Assess the Prescribing of Co-amoxiclav in an Acute Medical Unit of a District General Hospital between September 2021 to January 2022

Paweena Karattaphong

Foundation Pharmacist

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Serum Uric Acid (SUA) Level Monitoring in Patients Taking Allopurinol in a Primary Care Setting

Jake Plant

Foundation Pharmacist

County Durham and Darlington NHS foundation Trust

Impact of Pharmacists in Pre-assessment Clinics

Li Jan Yeo

Foundation Pharmacist

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Optimisation of Lipid Lowering Therapy in Acute Stroke

Rebecca Dodd

Foundation Pharmacist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Post-implementation Audit of an Electronic Variable Rate Insulin Infusion (VRII) Protocol at an Acute Trust

Abed Hammamieh

Foundation Pharmacist

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

 

Future Workforce Workshop – Foundation Pharmacists and future Foundation Pharmacists only

The future workforce workshop will give a structured opportunity to current and future foundation pharmacists to meet inspirational and successful pharmacist colleagues from across the region, learn about a variety of pharmacist job roles, and understand more about the opportunities and types of careers that are available within our region.

Laura Tweddle, Acting Deputy Chief Pharmacist, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

Genomic medicine, worthless or worthwhile?

Join this interactive session and share your views on the opportunities and challenges related to genomic medicine

Emma Groves, Lead Pharmacist – Genomic Medicine, North East and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Alliance

 

Improving Outcomes for Respiratory Patients

The session will reflect on the initial project as a proof of concept study in two PCNs – Holgate (5 practices) and Greater Middlesbrough (8 practices). The objectives of the project are: to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers by patients; reduce disease burden of patients with asthma and COPD; and improve system integration and multi-disciplinary team working.

Over-reliance on short acting beta agonists (SABA), commonly referred to as ‘reliever inhalers’, is associated with worse asthma outcomes including increased risk of exacerbations, emergency department attendance, hospital admission and risk of asthma death.  SABA prescribing in Tees Valley CCG is amongst the highest in the country, versus other CCG footprints.  In Tees Valley CCG, 38.7% of asthma patients in the old South Tees CCG footprint received 6 or more asthma inhalers between Nov 18- Oct 19 compared to 26% national average. Holgate PCN and Greater Middlesbrough PCN collectively have up to 959 and 1,545 patients that received 6+ SABAs respectively, and up to 376 and 547 patients who received 3+ OCS (a further measure of poor control) during this same time period, pre-covid.

Mike Maguire, Local Professional Network Chair (Pharmacy), NHS England and NHS Improvement – North East and Yorkshire

Claire Adams, Respiratory Clinical Lead for Primary Care, NHS Tees Valley Clinical Commissioning Group

 

Is our prescribing working? Changes in medicines optimisation to benefit people and the planet

This session will focus on the link between overprescribing as overconsumption, the role of personalised care and MO within this and how people can find their space/ actions within this space.

Helena Gregory, Pharmacy and Medicines Lead, North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group

 

Sustainability in the Medicines decision making process across the North East & North Cumbria ICS; RDTC strategic resources and support

Coordination of strategic decision-making groups, providing evidence-based evaluations on medicines and supporting new pathway development is inherently important to creating a successful Integrated care system. However, how does the sustainability agenda fit into this process? This session will cover opportunities and ideas for how to integrate and support medicines sustainability considerations, including specific resources, tools, publications, and forthcoming outputs on sustainability by the Regional Drug & Therapeutics Centre (NHS).

Gavin Mankin and Dan Newsome, Principal Pharmacists – Medicines Management

Regional Drug & Therapeutics Centre, hosted by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

Panel discussion on the complexity of making sustainable choices with patients

Julia Blagburn, Senior Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Integrated Care

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

Using behaviour change theory to influence prescribing

Find out how Sunderland CCG and PCNs have worked together and used behaviour change theory to design interventions to influence prescribing. Using a small amount of theory and a lot of practical examples, you will learn how prescribing in high priority areas in Sunderland such as opioids, antimicrobials and self-care is being addressed. You will have the opportunity to apply the learning from this to your own priority areas, be that in individual practice or across a system.

Ewan Maule, Interim Lead Pharmacist – North East and North Cumbria ICS and Head of Medicines Optimisation Sunderland CCG

James O’Brien, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Sunderland PCN

Vicki Casey, Medicines optimisation Business Support Manager, NHS Sunderland CCG

Foundation Pharmacist Poster Display

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Open Call Poster Display

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