Strategy & Policy Forum

How we developed a pilot in east Kent which made inhaler recycling easy, using a model that has never been tried before. This work is a collaboration between NHS Kent and Medway ICB and Chiesi Limited ...

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. In this session, Danielle Hunt and Melissa Cochrane will share insights gathered from the charity’s latest workforce wellbeing survey and roundtable with the RPS and share key updates and actionable strategies to address prevalent issues such as burnout and mental health. Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insights and explore practical solutions to nurture a healthier and more sustainable pharmacy culture.

This session will give an introduction to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and how this may affect the way we look at medicines related incidents.

collaborative leadership with some shared examples from the panel

A presentation on a neurodiverse perspective on how to make your pharmacy inclusive. This will include differences in communication between neurotypes, reasonable adjustments that can be put into place straight away that are easy to implement for all and the validity of self-diagnosis due to the barriers to getting a diagnosis.

Patients with Parkinson’s are at risk of significant harm if they don’t get their medication on time, every time. ‘On time’ means within 30 minutes of the patient’s prescribed time. Data from the 2022 ...

A discussion and clinic on how we address the deficit of DPP’s in a sustainable way

The medicines related-consultation assessment tool (MR-CAT) is a new validated global assessment tool which has been used to assess over 4000 pharmacy professionals working in primary care. The MR-CAT can also be used as a self-assessment tool to support pharmacy professionals to conceptualise what good consultation skills and behaviours look like. In this session we will use recorded simulated consultations to demonstrate how the MR-CAT can be used to distinguish between consultations of differing quality and discuss how the MR-CAT can be used to identify areas of good consultation practice and areas for development. We believe that the MR-CAT should be the consultation skills assessment tool of choice and are working with HEI partners to explore how the MR-CAT can be used for teaching and assessment in the academic setting as well as incorporating the MR-CAT into CPPE learning programmes.

Pharmacy Zero30 group at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has run a new initiative in 2022 and 2023- PHARMACY GREAT BIG GREEN WEEK. The initiative, run for a week every year, has aimed to raise awareness and encourage staff members to think about ideas to improve our services and reduce our impact on the environment. The focused activities included daily emails with visual flyers focussing on a pressing issue in the department that then related to sustainable healthcare; staff educational activities; staff survey encouraging more sustainable travel and lifestyles; sharing of ideas to take forward and later present in a Green Dragon’s Den; updates from the Trust senior leadership; and whole team’s participation in a national audit project around patient behaviours of disposing unwanted medicines. Everyone from the Chief Pharmacist all the way to the undergraduate students were involved in the activities

This presentation aims to review the comorbidities associated with HIV and the current risk reduction strategies in order to prevent them.

This session explains how the University of East Anglia and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society have successfully worked together to prepare learners on the UEA NQP programme to achieve RPS credentialing ...

In 2023 UEA admitted students to a novel, longitudinal prescribing program that taught a broad but defined hospital prescribing scope alongside long established basic clinical training. It used DPPs in a different way, to spread the burden of supervision while creating exposure to multiple prescribing mentors and. It embedded the RPS credentialling process to facilitate a triple award at the end of 2 years. Lessons have been learned along the way. Lessons about what good supervision looks like and the importance of it if you want to develop autonomy. Lessons about what good feedback looks like if you want behaviour change, fast. Lessons about what safe, effective prescribing could look like in an early career practitioner and how it would translate to service. Lessons about what controlled scope expansion and sector diversification could look like in a post 2026 workforce, and reassurance of the need for basic clinical orientation to remain a part of post-registration training

In this presentation, we will explore a quality improvement project aimed at reducing medicine waste in community pharmacies. Titled "WASTE NOT WANT NOT; What’s in your bag? Empowering patients to man ...

A quick tour of the peaks and troughs of our career with a focus on career empowerment

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An exploratory study to characterise dosing instructions on dispensed paediatric medicines labels

In 2022, in England, there were 94,397 people living with a diagnosed HIV infection and accessing care. Due to successful treatment, half of diagnosed people living with HIV were aged 50 years or over ...