This session will empower primary care pharmacists to engage in holistic patient-centred medication reviews with patients who have a learning disability, supporting them to improve outcomes from medicines and reduce side effects and over prescribing.

• Understand how to implement reasonable adjustments in practice
• Identify inappropriate prescribing of psychotropics in people with a learning disability
• Use tools to measure and assess behaviours or symptoms that might prompt psychotropic prescribing
• Describe the risks and harms caused by antipsychotic prescribing in this population
• Monitor for side effects from psychotropics effectively
• Take steps to reduce harm from medicines in this population, through either deprescribing or appropriate side effect management
• Carry out a holistic medication review using tailored resources and expert knowledge to optimise medicines.