PrescQIPP Annual Event and Awards 2026
Thank you to those who came to our sessions at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress.
It was great to be able to showcase our evidence-based resources and implementation tools to support you with your projects on:
- reducing opioids in chronic pain,
- greener prescribing,
- reducing medicines waste by addressing overprescribing.
It was also great to be able to 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 2026 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 by Sunday 31st May 2026.
The PrescQIPP Annual Event and Awards takes place on Friday 25th September 2026, 10.00 – 15.30 at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2RJ.
As well as receiving their award, the five winners will also share best practice on the day by presenting key aims and achievements from their projects, giving attendees the opportunity to hear first-hand from the winners about their great work.
In 2025 we had presentations about –
- Cardiorenal Optimisation for patients with Type 2 diabetes
- Embedding Inhaler Recycling into the NHS
- PCN c. difficile improvement project
- Innovating for Impact: A technology based approach to safer enoxaparin self-management
- ICB-led medication training offer for adult social care staff, including medication champions training
It will be great to get together in person to network and hear from great speakers, as well as updates from the PrescQIPP team. We have an interesting day planned with the following fantastic speakers:
Dr Deborah Cohen - an award-winning medically qualified broadcaster, investigative journalist, author and a Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Health (London School of Economics).
Lloyd Hambridge - Divisional Director for Primary Care and Community Services at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, and former Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer within the Welsh Government.
Dr Debi Bhattacharya - Professor of Behavioural Medicine at the University of Leicester and a Primary Care Pharmacist.
Tommy Whitelaw - National Lead for Person Centred Voices at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.
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 2026!
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