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CPC 2026 Content Programme

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Pragmatic prescribing to reduce harm for older people with moderate to severe frailty

09 May 2026
Clinical Theatre 2

This session explores how to manage medication reviews in older adults with frailty, including how to discuss benefits and risks of treatment that might not always be in line with national guidance. This will be explored through case studies of older people living with frailty and other co-morbidities. During the session, the deprescribing of inappropriate polypharmacy will be demonstrated incorporating the new British Geriatrics Society's Pragmatic Prescribing.

  • Become aware of the BGS clinic guide for pragmatic prescribing to reduce harm for older people with moderate to severe frailty
  • Knowledge of the lenient therapeutic targets in common conditions in older people with moderate frailty
  • Deprescribing in older people living with moderate frailty
  • Knowledge of the potential harms from medicines in older people with moderate frailty
Chairperson
Mina Hunjan
Speakers
V-Lin Cheong, Consultant Pharmacist Older People and Interfaces of Care - Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
Chinyere Orakwe, Lead Pharmacist - Department for Medicine in the Elderly - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Kerry Burrows, Primary Care Specialist Frailty Pharmacist - Brunel Integrated Neighbourhood Team
Kam Sahota, Lead Clinical Pharmacist Frailty - Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Ðula Alićehajić-Bečić, Consultant Pharmacist Frailty Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Trust - Co-chair of British Geriatric Society Pharmacy Group

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