NENC Overprescribing Community of Practice

03/02/2025 12:30 pm to 03/02/2025 1:30 pm

Event Details

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The focus of this session is, Deprescribing: A series of case studies in practice

We invite you to join us at our next North East North Cumbria Overprescribing Community of Practice meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Henry Woodford who will discuss his approach to deprescribing and medicines optimisation in a selection of case studies in clinical practice. Please see further information on Dr Woodford below.

Dr Henry Woodford was born in York and trained in medicine at King’s College London. He is currently employed as a consultant geriatrician at Northumbria Healthcare in the northeast of England. He has a particular interest in medicine optimisation for older people and is current chair of the relevant British Geriatrics Society special interest group. Other publications include the textbooks Essential Geriatrics and co-authoring Geriatric Medicine: 300 Specialty Certificate Exam Questions. Outside of work, he tries to keep fit through circuit training, running and indoor bouldering.

Important:  Please register using your work NHS Net account. This event is suitable for both Secondary and Primary Care staff, is free of charge and held via Microsoft Teams over the lunch time period and will be recorded and shared on our Futures site.