Polypharmacy Action Learning Sets
Date(s): Multiple dates, April – July 2024
Location: Online
Organised by: The Health Innovation Network
Email:healthinnowest.polypharmacyprogramme@nhs.net
Event summary
The Health Innovation Network National Polypharmacy Programme: Getting the balance right invites GPs and prescribers with a minimum of 12 months’ experience to join our Polypharmacy Action Learning Sets (ALS). The Polypharmacy ALS is an evidence-based learning model developed by Wessex Health Innovation Network in partnership with Health Education England.
The aim is to help GPs, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals who undertake prescribing, medication reviews and de-prescribing on a regular basis to understand the complex issues surrounding stopping inappropriate medicines safely.
The ALS will also help primary care networks (PCNs) deliver the Medicines Optimisation elements of the Directed Enhanced Services and Investment and Impact Fund contracts and meet recommendation 18 of the National Overprescribing Review report.
This online interactive course is held over three half-days (9.30am – 12.15pm) over one month on Zoom. Multiple cohorts are being set up over the year ahead. Book your place on your preferred dates below.
The programme
- Session 1: Polypharmacy – the scale, impact and challenges around stopping medicines safely. We will define inappropriate medicines and look at the patient perspective.
- Session 2: What tools are available to help? We will explore shared decision-making, the evidence and tools to help conduct high-quality medication reviews.
- Session 3: Workshop and facilitated discussions with consultant geriatricians to share experience of medication reviews and consolidate learning.
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Polypharmacy: understanding the data webinars
Date(s): Multiple dates, April – January 2025
Location: Online
Organised by: The Health Innovation Network
Email:healthinnowest.polypharmacyprogramme@nhs.net
Event summary
The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy: Getting the Balance Right Programme aims to support local systems and primary care to identify patients at potential risk of harm and support better conversations about medicines by promoting shared decision-making. One of the core principles of this is population health management.
To consider how best to understand and utilise available data, the Health Innovation Network and NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) are hosting a series of webinars with dates through to September 2024.
What will I learn?
The event will share information and insights into how the NHS BSA polypharmacy prescribing comparators can:
- Support primary care and wider health systems understand the variation in prescribing of multiple medicines
- Identify patients who are more likely to be exposed to the risks that can be associated with taking large numbers of medicines or certain combinations of medicines.
The webinars will be introduced by Clare Howard, Chair of the Polypharmacy Prescribing Comparators Group and Medicines Optimisation Clinical Lead for HI Wessex.
The programme
12:00 – Introduction to the NHS BSA Polypharmacy prescribing comparators, Clare Howard, Medicines Optimisation Lead, Health Innovation Wessex
12:30 – Live demonstration of how to access and use the NHS BSA Polypharmacy prescribing comparators, Ben Baker, Customer Engagement and Training Lead, NHS BSA
13:00 – Q&A
13:30 – Webinar end
Who should attend
We encourage attendance from Health Innovation Network nominated polypharmacy and clinical leads, ICS medicines optimisation leads and Primary Care Network (PCN) teams, including GPs and pharmacists.
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Polypharmacy: Stopping Antidepressants Safely Lunchtime Masterclass
Date(s): May 21 2024, 12-2pm
Location: Online
Organised by: The Health Innovation Network
Email:healthinnowest.polypharmacyprogramme@nhs.net
Event summary
The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy: Getting the Balance Right Programme aims to support local systems and primary care to identify patients at potential risk of harm and support better conversations about medicines by promoting shared decision making.
Join Dr Mark Horowitz, author of The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, Clinical Research Fellow and Training Psychiatrist on stopping antidepressants safely and managing withdrawal symptoms, an essential masterclass for clinicians who prescribe these medicines. The session will include a summary of the evidence base and patient case study for discussion and learning, followed by a Q&A session.
Audience: Our Polypharmacy Masterclass Series is open to GPs , Pharmacists, Nurse prescribers and other interested health professionals.
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Polypharmacy: Prescribing Safely in Older People Lunchtime Masterclass
Date(s): May 13 2024, 12-1:30pm
Location: Online
Organised by: The Health Innovation Network
Email:healthinnowest.polypharmacyprogramme@nhs.net
Event summary
The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy: Getting the Balance Right Programme aims to support local systems and primary care to identify patients at potential risk of harm and support better conversations about medicines by promoting shared decision making.
Join our webinar to find out why we need to be more careful prescribing for older people, understand more about the drug metabolism in older people and some of the common safety issues.
Our Guest Speaker is Dr Lauren Walker, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Internal Medicine, University of Liverpool.
The session will include therapeutics, evidence based summary and a patient case study for discussion and learning, followed by a Q&A session.
Audience: Our Polypharmacy Masterclass Series is open to GPs , Pharmacists, Nurse prescribers and other interested health professionals.
Book here.