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PCPA All Wales Conference 29th June

June 29, 2022   Mercure Cardiff North, Circle Way East, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, CF239XF   How To Get There

**Closure date for registrations: 10am Monday 27th June**

This is an all day face to face event. Starting at 9.30 and closed approximately at 3.30pm. 

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

Places are limited and priority given to PCPA members. This event is FREE and open to all Pharmacy Professionals.

If you do not make a workshop selection, these will be made on your behalf.
 
For this event there is a £50 "No Show" fee, if you do not attend or cancel 48hrs prior to the event.
Once place has been confirmed, we will be contacting ALL confirmed registrants by phone to confirm attendance prior to the event.

This event will be sponsored by pharmaceutical companies through the purchase of Exhibition stands.

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. The following attending sponsors will have an exhibitiion stand at this event:Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cheisi, GSK.

Information at these stands is intended for UK Healthcare professionals only.

Agenda

09.00 - 09.30    Registration: Meet, greet and network with colleagues from across your region

09.30 - 10.00    Updates: 

  • QOF/QAF - What is it & why does it matter?: Speaker Lloyd Hambridge
  • Update on GP Pharmacy training in Wales: Speaker Kate Spittle

 

10.00 - 10.50    Workshop Session 1

10.55 - 11.15    Refreshment break and exhibition

11.20 - 12.10    Workshop Session 2

12.10 - 13.10    Lunch and exhibition

13.10 - 14.00    Workshop Session 3

14.00 - 14.20    Refreshment break and exhibition

14.20 - 15.15    Workshop Session 4

15.20 - 15.30    Networking with colleagues

15.30    Close


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.


10.00 - 10.50    Workshop Session 1


Mental Health & antidepressants - Speakers: Emily Laing

3 KEY POINTS:

  1. A refresher of anxiety and depression symptoms and evidence based treatment
  2. Practical tips on medication reviews
  3. How to build your mental health competence


Heart Failure – Speaker: Neil Sugden & Clare Arthur

Three take-away points:

  1. Heart Failure therapeutics and evidenced based treatments
  2. Insights from a novel Primary care Pharmacist lead Heart Failure Service
  3. How to build competency in heart failure and build medicines optimisation into your practice


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11.20 - 12.10    Workshop Session 2


Pain: The challenges of managing lower back pain – Speaker: Emma Davies

Three take-away points:

  • How to address some of the common myths associated with back pain
  • When and how to prescribe analgesics for back pain
  • How to apply chronic primary and secondary pain recommendations in back pain

 



Heart Failure – Speakers: Neil Sugden & Clare Arthur

Three take-away points:

  1. Heart Failure therapeutics and evidenced based treatments
  2. Insights from a novel Primary care Pharmacist lead Heart Failure Service
  3. How to build competency in heart failure and build medicines optimisation into your practice


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13.10 - 14.00   Workshop Session 3


Sustainability in respiratory practice – Speakers: Jackie Reynolds & Victoria Richards-Green 

3 take away points

  • How focusing on the basics of respiratory care is good for the patient and the planet
  • Tips and ideas for achieving the new Decarbonisation of Inhalers National Prescribing Indicator
  • Resources to support sustainable respiratory prescribing

 



QI case studies – Speaker Paul Gimson

3 take away points

  • To highlight the basics of QI and how it might apply to primary Care
  • Quality Improvement in Practice – what did we learn from PIPCOP (Pharmacists in Practice – Community of Practice)
  • To explore in more depth the Quality Improvement elements of the Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework


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14.20 - 15.15    Workshop Session 4


ACD (Accelerated Cluster Development Programme) - Speakers: Alan Lawrie & Sian Evans 

3 Key Points:

1. Clusters are here to stay – the ACD programme underpins cluster working 

2. Pharmacy and medicines management have a vital role in delivering ACD – find out what is happening on your patch

3. Community Pharmacy Collaborative Leads are good contacts to develop working relationships with



A holistic approach to anticoagulation and shared decision making in patients with NVAF - Speaker Beverley Bostock

This session has been organised and fully funded by Bayer and may contain promotional content and is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only. Adverse Event Reporting and Prescribing Information is available at the end of the presentation.

(RP-XAR-GB-4239, June 2022)



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