Thank you to those who came and listened to our sessions and engaged with us at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress on Friday 9th May.

 

It was great to be able to showcase our evidence based resources and implementation tools to support you with your projects on dependence forming medicines, overprescribing and oversupply of medicines, and DOAC prescribing  as well as highlight the array of data analyses available to you on the PrescQIPP website.

 

If you have been working on a project and would like to share what you have done with others, and be in with a chance of winning a prestigious PrescQIPP award, why not enter the PrescQIPP Annual awards?

 

The five award categories for 2025 are –

• Addressing health inequalities
• Care homes/domiciliary care/carer medicines optimisation
• Data tools and technology to support medicines optimisation
• Enhanced productivity, sustainability and value for money
• Patient safety and addressing overprescribing

 

You don't need to be a PrescQIPP subscriber to enter the awards, as they're open to all NHS teams across all sectors.

Just complete  the on-line entry form before Monday 16th June 2025.

 

The PrescQIPP Annual Event and Awards takes place on Tuesday 7th October 2025, 10.00 – 15.30 at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2RJ.

It will be great to get together in person to network and hear from great speakers and award winners, alongside updates from the PrescQIPP team.

 

We have an interesting day planned with the following fantastic speakers and topics:

• Anna King, Commercial Director at the Health Innovation Network (HIN) and a DigitalHealth.London board member - Development and deployment of evidence-based AI innovations in the NHS
• Philip Newland-Jones, Consultant Pharmacist in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospital Southampton – Obesity medicines; evidence, implementation and practicalities
• Dr Mark Horowitz, training psychiatrist and Visiting Lecturer in London, lead author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines – Deprescribing antidepressants
• Dr Anna Murphy, consultant respiratory pharmacist, University Hospitals of Leicester, honorary visiting professor at De Montfort University – NICE/BTS Asthma guidelines – how are we doing?

 

Register here to join us in Nottingham for an interesting and interactive day, highlighting and sharing good practice for the benefit of patients. We look forward to engaging with you again in 2025!