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PCPA Midlands Symposium 24th March 12.40 - 16.50 Online

March 24, 2021   Zoom Online

Develop your clinical knowledge through interactive practical workshops, delivered by nationally renowned experts.

This event is FREE and open to all pharmacy professionals. Places are limited and priority given to PCPA members. This is a national event but with a regional flair.

12.40 - 12.50   Welcome: Graham Stretch, PCPA President and Helen Kilminster, PCPA Vice President

12.55 - 13.10   Educational Exhibition Session 1

13.15 - 13.55   Workshop Session 1 

14.00 - 14.15   Educational Exhibition Session 2

14.15 - 14.25   Comfort Break

14.25 - 15.05   Workshop Session 2

15.10 - 15.25   Educational Exhibition Session 3

15.25 - 15.35   Comfort Break

15.35 - 16.15   Workshop Session 3

16.20 - 16.50    Panel Session: Ask the Experts

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Workshops selections will be released, once they become live. If you do not make a selection, these will be made on your behalf.

PCPA will send you your delegate pack, shortly before the event. This will include your bespoke Zoom login details and the event programme. This meeting will be recorded.
 
This event will be supported by the following pharmaceutical companies through the purchase of Exhibition sessions.
Companies: Abbott, Alutirx Ltd, Amgen, Aymes, Bayer, Chiesi, GSK, Nutricia, Rosemont and Takeda.
These companies have had no input into the design or content of the event agenda, except where a company has a separate company sponsored workshop. This promotional educational sessions have been sponsored and developed by the companies shown and is intended for UK Healthcare professionals only
 

Agenda

12.40 - 12.50    Welcome: Graham Stretch, PCPA President and Helen Kilminster, PCPA Vice President

12.55 - 13.10    Educational Exhibition Session 1

  • Compliance in Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS): What’s New
  • Change Management- A CCG review of mucolytic treatment options in COPD
  • Appropriate transitioning to a DOAC
  • Respiratory review and medicines optimisation of COPD patients

13.15 - 13.55    Workshop Session 1 

  • Managing Long Covid
  • Change-Coping with the new normal
  • Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care

14.00 - 14.15    Educational Exhibition Session 2

  • FreeStyle Libre 2 – Flash Glucose Monitoring System
  • Care Home Charter – Patients, Pharmacists & Multi-Disciplinary Teams
  • Long COVID: The role of Nutrition in COVID recovery

14.15 - 14.25    Comfort Break

14.25 - 15.05    Workshop Session 2

  • Evolving developments in the management of asthma
  • Clinical Supervision
  • A rational approach to prescribing and deprescribing in the frail older person

15.10 - 15.25   Educational Exhibition Session 3

  • The Impact of Choosing the Right Inhaler for Patients
  • Change Management- A CCG review of mucolytic treatment options in COPD
  • PCN case study: diabetes medicines optimisation of DPP-4is

15.25 - 15.35    Comfort Break

15.35 - 16.15   Workshop Session 3

  • PINCER & The New Indicators
  • Non ARRS workforce training HEE
  • PCN masterclass- Implementing Services

16.20 - 16.50    Panel Session: Ask the Experts

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Workshop Sessions

Please select which session you would like to attend from the options below, then scroll down to click the Submit Workshop Choices button. We will endeavour to grant your first choice where possible. If sessions are oversubscribed, we will allocate you an alternative session.


Your selections will be sent in a Personalised Agenda prior to the Event. PCPA does not print agendas for environmental reasons.

We look forward to welcoming you to this PCPA event.

Exhibition session 1 12.55 - 13.10


Compliance in Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS): What’s New

  • We will look at the latest research on improving compliance. 
  • We will consider the subjects of liquids vs powder formats and multi-dosing to provide practical suggestions. 

This promotional educational session has been organised and fully funded by AYMES and are intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Appropriate transitioning to a DOAC 

  • Health care professionals will learn how to transfer warfarin patients appropriately to a DOAC

This promotional educational session has been organised and fully funded by Bayer and are intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Respiratory review and medicines optimisation of COPD patients – Is this on your priority list? 

  • The BNF Respiratory chapter dominates the other 23 chapters in terms of NHS England spend/prescription item.
  • Are you interested in learning more on the health economy variation in medicines optimisation of respiratory inhalers devices across NHS England?
  • Is there a focus on optimising respiratory inhalers in your area? Do you want to learn more on the health economic and environmental factors that is driving this national trend?

This promotional educational session has been sponsored by GSK and are  intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Workshop session 1 13.15 - 13.55


Managing Long Covid -  Speakers: Eden Phillips

  • Gain an overview of Long Covid and its common presenting symptoms
  • Learn what to consider when assessing a patient in primary care and an overview of management options 
  • Understand when to consider referral to secondary care services

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Change-Coping with the new normal - Speaker: Dr Tariq Kapasi and Dr Graham Stretch 

  • Crisis, Covid and Innovation: how the current Covid pandemic has allowed change to occur at rapid pace 
  • Virtual consulting, the opportunity and challenge: using the virtual consultation as an opportunity to provide impactful care
  • Going beyond medication reviews: developing the pharmacist skill set

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**FULL.This workshop is now full. Please make an alternative selection**

Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care - Speaker: Rocco Hadland

  • Understanding the pathophysiology and signs and symptoms of heart failure
  • Optimising evidence-base heart failure therapies 
  • Managing GP disease registers for heart failure, focussing on QOF indicators

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Exhibition session 2 14.00 - 14.15


FreeStyle Libre 2 – Flash Glucose Monitoring System. Presenter: Dr Elemer Balogh, Medical Director Abbott diabetes care, UK & Ireland

Learning objectives:

  • An overview and new features of the FreeStyle Libre 2 system.
  • Benefits to the patients and the Healthcare Professionals
  • How does it fit into the current environment: Remote consultations

This promotional educational session has been organised and fully funded by Abbott and are intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Care Home Charter – Patients, Pharmacists & Multi-Disciplinary Teams: David Wright, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, presents the Care Home Charter and provides insight from a peer-to-peer perspective.

This promotional educational session has been sponsored by Rosemont Pharmaceuticals and are intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Long COVID: The role of Nutrition in COVID recovery

  • The symptoms and side-effects of COVID-19 which may persist long after initial infection can significantly impact nutritional status
  • The nutrition needs of individuals recovering from COVID-19 vary, requiring tailored support
  • Pharmacists have a key role to play in identifying and managing malnutrition, as well as signposting to other support services, during COVID-19 recovery

This promotional educational session has been organised and fully funded by Nutricia and are intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Workshop session 2 14.25 - 15.05


Evolving developments in the management of asthma - Speaker: Professor Dave Singh  (This session contains promotion) 

  • Asthma guidelines
  • New developments in asthma management
  • Small airways disease in asthma
  • Inhaler and the environment

This educational session has been sponsored by CHIESI and is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Clinical Supervision- Speaker: Dr Rashbal Ghattaora & Sarah Partridge

  • To understand the definition of Clinical Supervision
  • To review models to deliver Clinical Supervision
  • To understand the requirements for Workplace-based assessments ( WPBA)

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**FULL.This workshop is now full. Please make an alternative selection**

A rational approach to prescribing and deprescribing in the frail older person - Speaker: Dr Richard Wong Leicester GPwSI 

  • How can we define frailty? Does it matter?
  • Awareness of Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT) as a basis for decision-making
  • Tackling common areas of interest: cardiovascular medication, anticholinergic burden

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