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PCPA South West Symposium via Zoom 28th September

September 28, 2022   Online

PCPA South West Symposium via Zoom. 

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

This event is FREE and open to all pharmacy professionals.

This is a national event but with a regional flair.

This is an online event 12.40 - 4.40pm. This event will be locked from 1pm onwards. Parts of this event will be recorded.

Workshops selections will be released, once they become live. If you do not make a selection, these will be made on your behalf.
 
Once your place has been confirmed, we will send you your delegate pack which will include your bespoke Zoom login details and the event programme. This will be sent just prior to the event.
 
This event will be sponsored by pharmaceutical companies through the purchase of Exhibition sessions.
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. These promotional educational sessions have been sponsored and developed by the companies shown and is intended for UK Healthcare professionals only: Abbott, Amgen, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GSK, FDB, Nutricia.

Agenda

12.40 - 13.00   Panel Session - Question Time: Where next for Primary Care Pharmacy? Workforce, integration of additional roles. Speakers: Robin Conibere, Nick Haddington, Adam Hocking, Jason Peett & Ziad Suleiman 

13.05 - 13.20    Educational Exhibition Session 1

13.25 - 14.05    Workshop Session 1

14.10 - 14.25    Educational Exhibition Session 2

14.25 - 14.35    Comfort Break

14.35 - 15.15    Workshop Session 2

15.20 - 15.35   Educational Exhibition Session 3

15.35 - 15.45    Comfort Break

15.45 - 16.05   Workshop Session 3

16.10 - 16.40 CVD DISEASE ASK THE EXPERTS SESSION- Case Based Discussion and Q & A 

Panel:

Helen Williams, National Speciality Adviser for CVD Prevention

Robin Conibere, PCPA Vice President SW, Practice Pharmacist, Becon Medical Group

Ziad Suleiman, PCPA President SW, Senior Pharmacist, NSG PCN

16.40 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.


13.05 - 13.20    Educational Exhibition Session 1


Appropriate use of ONS in frail elderly to improve outcomes and decrease costs

  • Identifying when to start, change or stop ONS in frail patients
  • How Pharmacists can maximise compliance to reduce wastage and costs
  • The appropriate use of ONS in care homes
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This promotional educational session has been organised and fully funded by Nutricia and is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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13.25 - 14.05    Workshop Session 1


How you can improve your diabetes management using Flash Glucose Monitoring - Speaker: Su Down

3 key learning:

  • Understanding Time in Range and how it can improve your diabetes management
  • Glucose variability, recognising the causes and knowing how to make changes to improve the variability
  • Knowledge of Trend arrows, understand what they mean to assist in prevention hypo and hyper glycaemia

This workshop session has been organised and fully funded by ABBOTT and is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

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Managing Pain in General Practice – Practical insights, tips and tools- Speaker: Adam Hocking, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Dorset Community Pain Service

Key takeaways:

  • Untangling the concepts of ‘dependence’, ‘mis-use’ and ‘addiction’ to prescribed medication 
  • Recognising that the process of reduction is straightforward but reaching that point can be the challenge with patients.
  • Consideration of when it may be prudent to adopt a risk mitigation/ harm reduction approach for prescribed medications of dependence rather than one of reduction.


14.10 - 14.25    Educational Exhibition Session 2


The Triangle of Diabetes Care – Three goals for better outcomes

  • Improving HbA1C
  • Reducing the frequency of hypoglycaemia
  • Limiting glucose variability
  • Why they are all important in managing everyday up and downs of diabetes and reducing the risk of long term complications to improve overall health and wellbeing

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

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Sustainable Respiratory Care

At Chiesi, we believe true ‘sustainability’ in respiratory care can only be achieved with a broad array of projects that protect both our patients and the planet. During this session Chiesi representatives will share our approach to sustainable respiratory care with you, and answer any questions you may have.

This session is sponsored by Chiesi Ltd and is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only.

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CVD: Identifying and prioritising patients for optimal lipid management 

  • Join our session to see FDB AnalyseRx live in action within the EMIS clinical system.
  • See how we use deep integration and automatic daily updates to deliver compelling high risk cohorts and individual cases including those who require cholesterol optimisation as part of their long-term condition management.
  • Presentation of use cases to find, prioritise, track and manage patients with your multidisciplinary team.

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

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14.35 - 15.15    Workshop Session 2


Case Based Discussions Diabetes -Interactive Session- Speaker: Su Down

3 Key Learning Points:

  1. Unpicking the complexities of type 2 diabetes management
  2. Individualising type 2 diabetes management at all stages of diabetes
  3. Diabetes management is more than just glucose control

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Chronic Pain: The patient pain journey and experience-Interactive Session- Speaker: Louise Trewern & Robin Conibere

Key takeaways:

  • Remember pain is scary!
  • What the patient needs to know about pain and the long term use of opioids
  • The role Pharmacists have in prescribing & deprescribing of dependence forming pain meds

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