Polypharmacy: supporting the pharmacist workforce

13:15

Registration

 

13:20

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Wasim Baqir

National Pharmacy Lead (Care Homes)

NHS England and NHS Improvement

 

13:30

Keynote Speaker

Dr Bruce Warner

Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

NHS England and NHS Improvement

 

13:45

Deprescribing in Primary Care: Getting Started

Gemma Donovan

Medicines Optimisation Academic Practitioner

NHS Sunderland CCG and University of Sunderland

 

14:00

Polypharmacy Education

Rachel Berry

Advanced Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

NHS County Durham CCG

 

14:15

Supporting Reductions in Hypnotics Prescribing

Alastair Paterson

Pharmacist

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust (at time of project)

 

14:30

Reducing Antibiotic Prescribing Through Community Pharmacy

Mike Maguire

Local Professional Network Chair (Pharmacy)

NHS England and NHS Improvement – North East and Yorkshire

 

14:45

Break

 

15:00

Addressing inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in clinically futile scenarios

Joe Brayson

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Antimicrobials

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

 

15:15

Optimising the Management of COPD Exacerbations in Primary Care

Paul Davies

Pharmacist

Forest Hall Medical Group

 

15:30

A Proactive Approach to Bone Health

Lewis Sutherland

Pharmacist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

 

15:45

The Use of Opiates: A GP’s Perspective

Dr Rory MacKinnon

GP Partner & Trainer, Bridge View Medical Group

Clinical Director, Sunderland North PCN

Medical Director, Sunderland GP Alliance

Northern Foundation School Training Programme Director for F2 in GP

Associate Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle University

 

16:00

Summary and Closing Remarks

Dr Wasim Baqir

National Pharmacy Lead (Care Homes)

NHS England and NHS Improvement

Dr Wasim Baqir

National Pharmacy Lead (Care Homes)

NHS England and NHS Improvement

Wasim Baqir leads the NHS England Pharmacy Integration Fund Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (#MOCH) Programme. He was the Lead Pharmacist for the Northumberland PACS Vanguard where he lead an integrated team of pharmacists and technicians, working collaboratively with doctors, nurses, social care and other professionals to develop and test person centred services for people across Northumberland (www.health.org.uk/pills).

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Dr Bruce Warner 

Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

NHS England and NHS ImprovementDr Bruce Warner works closely with the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer on the strategic and operational development of medicines policy for NHS England.

Prior to this post, Bruce worked as Deputy Director of Patient Safety at the NPSA and in NHS England where he led on the strategy for patient safety improvement and headed up the patient safety advice and guidance function.

Bruce has worked in most sectors of pharmacy including community, hospital, academia and at a PCG/T. He is also a visiting Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Huddersfield.

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Gemma Donovan

Medicines Optimisation Academic Practitioner

NHS Sunderland CCG and University of Sunderland

Gemma Donovan is a Pharmacist Academic Practitioner working jointly as a Senior Lecturer n the School of Pharmacy at the University of Sunderland and as a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist in NHS Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group. Gemma’s work aims to explore how pharmacists can support medicines optimisation in all settings as well as working together across boundaries of care. This has included work on unlicensed medicines, medication adherence and medication safety. Gemma is also interested in how patients can be involved as co-creators in both research and practice innovation.

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Rachel Berry

Advanced Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

NHS County Durham CCGRachel Berry is a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist working in the County Durham CCG MO team.  Within this role she focusses on a wide range of clinical areas, in particular clinical education, research and innovation, pain management and antibiotic stewardship.

Prior to working within primary care Rachel worked as a clinical pharmacist in multiple hospitals across the country including in Bradford, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent and Durham.  She has a diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, a certificate in Clinical Education and is an Independent Prescriber and therefore has a wide breadth of experience to draw on when it comes to polypharmacy and de-prescribing.

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@CountyDurhamCCG

 

Alastair Paterson

Pharmacist

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust (at time of project)Alastair is currently a locum pharmacist embarking on further postgraduate education. He was recently a locum pharmacist at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. In his role here, whilst managing adult acute and rehabilitation psychiatric wards, he initiated a project to create educational interventions aimed at reducing inappropriate hypnotic prescribing. He developed and tested 3 educational interventions on inpatient psychiatric wards. The interventions were viewed favourably by ward staff and were linked to a reduction in hypnotic prescribing and administration rates.

@Al_Paterson94

 

Mike Maguire

Local Professional Network Chair (Pharmacy)

NHS England and NHS Improvement – North East and Yorkshire

As Managing Director/Community Pharmacist at Marton Pharmacy in Middlesbrough, Mike transformed the health and wellbeing of his community.

In 2009, Mike won the UK Community Pharmacist of the Year Award, and has since won national awards for Excellence in Training, Innovation and Excellence in Business, and an award from Mayor Ray Mallon for Services to the Community. Mike is an Honorary Lecturer at Newcastle University School of Pharmacy and has recently been instrumental in creating and launching the Award-Winning NHS111 Community Pharmacy Referral Service, which has evolved into the national NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.

@NHSEngland

@mikemaguire66

 

Joe Brayson

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Antimicrobials

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Joe is a Senior Clinical Pharmacist in Antimicrobials and a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. A Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Fellow in Global Health he is involved with work overseas in Tanzania around antimicrobial stewardship. We developed the Antibiotic Café as a novel training opportunity to address the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance focussing on antibiotic use in palliative care.

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Paul Davies

Pharmacist

Forest Hall Medical Group

Paul is interested in the changing roles of healthcare professionals in primary care. Very keen to explore new models and innovative solutions to the delivery of care.

 

 

 

Lewis Sutherland

Pharmacist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Lewis studied at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and did his pre-registration training in Edinburgh. From there he moved to Northumbria in September 2016 where he held several different roles and currently practices as a senior clinical pharmacist in rheumatology.

Lewis has an interest in osteoporosis and worked with the AHSN NENC on a primary care bone health project last year. This project aimed to identify and manage patients at risk of osteoporotic fracture across 16 GP practices in Northumberland who would potentially not have been identified for action by the usual reactive model of care.

@NorthumbriaNHS

@NHCTPharmacy

 

Dr Rory MacKinnon

GP Partner & Trainer, Bridge View Medical Group

Clinical Director, Sunderland North PCN

Medical Director, Sunderland GP Alliance

Northern Foundation School Training Programme Director for F2 in GP

Associate Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle University

Rory is the Medical Director of the Alliance. He originally trained in Sheffield before completing his GP training in the North East.

He has strong interests in education and collaborative working. He firmly believes that by working together we can be the leaders of change and develop primary care in the best interests of our patients.

@SunderlandGPA

@SunderlandLPC

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