Innovation and Integration Theatre

A research project was conducted to enhance building a research culture and capacity amongst hospital pharmacy professionals. The project included two phases, phase 1 included collecting responses to a research engagement questionnaire, and phase 2 included collecting further views through individual interviews and/or a focus group with pharmacy professionals. The project identified barriers and facilitators to practice-based research engagement.

Discover the tools available within Ardens Clinical and Ardens Manager to support Primary Care in implementing national and local prescribing initiatives. These tools aid the safe initiation, monitoring, review, and optimisation of medications, supporting all prescribing professionals—from clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to GPs, ANPs, and the administrative team.

Join the team at Pharmacist Support; the profession's independent charity - for an enlightening session delving into the critical topic of workplace wellbeing in the pharmacy profession.

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A review of the data from the 2024 Acute Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Project, with a specific focus on the use of technology and digital. The UK wide project collected data for the 2023/24 financial year. Join the session to hear about how technology and digital solutions are being used in Acute Pharmacy across the UK.

Rhian Carta (CTM UHB) and Laura Tweddle (South Tees Hospitals) are Workforce Development Lead Pharmacists. Rhian and Laura met at CPC North 2023, and following discussions between presentations and posters got chatting about all things placements! Rhian and Laura continued to network following conference, and discovered that between them they had some huge successes and challenges that they had overcome regarding undergraduate placements. Today they will be sharing their stories and championing good practice around undergraduate pharmacy placements, and demonstrating the benefits this can have on pharmacy workforce.

The journey of a pharmacy technician through ED and admissions. The projects and challenges undertaken to make it an effective and productive service.

This session will provide a summary of the development and implementation of the only nationally funded inhaler recycling pilot in England. The pilot sees patients return used or expired pressurised metered dose inhalers to across 20 community pharmacies and participating acute sites. The inhalers will be recycled to recover and repurpose the propellants which are environmentally damaging greenhouse gases.

Attend this session to understand how Soar Beyond is pioneering an aspirational but realistic approach to implementing QI for your cardio-renal metabolic patients. In this session, you will understand ...

It’s an exciting time for pharmacy research following the NHS England report on clinical academic pathways for pharmacy professionals and the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded pharmacy incubator. These offer a national focus for pharmacy research and an opportunity to stimulate debate about how we can expand research capacity and capability in pharmacy teams. This session offers information and inspiration, as expert Panel members share their expertise, experiences and stories about their routes to research. The Panel represents a variety of sectors, roles and pathways to research. This session is sure to get you thinking about your career and research development opportunities. If you are an experienced researcher/ research champion/ manager, you might also consider how you support others to meet their research aspirations You will have the chance to ask the panel questions and can sign up to be linked in with a pharmacy research group in your area.

We will present our learning from the innovative pilot study undertaken to develop and investigate a pilot prescribing training program for trainee pharmacist in their foundation year. Insights to successful strategies for gathering portfolio evidence and how to identify appropriate activities and assessment tools for prescriber competence will be shared. Finding about the role of the designated prescriber role and how to support the changing understanding of what a prescribing pharmacist is will also be discussed.

In 2024 HIV is a manageable condition, and people living with HIV are living longer, and will be encountered in health care settings outside of the HIV speciality. It is, therefore, important as a generalist or other specialist to have a grasp of how to identify and manage HIV drug-drug interactions. Additionally, due to effective treatment leading to fewer HIV-related deaths & improved survival, as well as ongoing diagnoses, there is an ageing cohort with potentially complex polypharmacy.

Inform and educate the audience regarding key updates on Pharmacy on behalf of NHS England.

Join Nuala Hampson from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare for an overview of the principles of sustainable healthcare and how they can be applied to pharmacy practice. Hear about examples of sustainable pharmacy practice addressing issues such as choice of formulation, single use plastics and medicines waste. Learn how to access the Sustainable Pharmacy Network hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to engage with like-minded pharmacy teams and access a wealth of case studies and other sustainable healthcare resources.

As part of a leadership fellowship project on medicines sustainability, a survey and interviews were carried out with front line pharmacy staff exploring their opinions on environmental sustainability and the barriers and enablers found in practice. We will discuss the findings and how we can use this to move environmental sustainability work in pharmacy forwards.