Webinar Details
Webinar: Improving patient safety and system efficiency: RPS / RCGP Repeat Prescribing Toolkit
Date: Thursday 9th January 2025
Time: 1-2pm
Key takeaways
- Increase your awareness of the RPS/RCGP repeat prescribing toolkit and how it can be used in practice
- Learn what data is available to support practices with their understanding of local examples of over prescribing
- Understand the training materials available to take back to practices to improve local processes and enhance patient safety and efficiency
Chair:
Graham Stretch, PCPA President, Partner Argyle Group, Lead Pharmacist Ealing Community Partners
Speaker:
Clare Howard, Clinical Lead for Medicines Optimisation at Wessex Academic Health Science Network
Clare Thomson, Lead PCN Clinical Pharmacist, Training Programme Lead for Advanced Practice (Pharmacy) at NHSE SE region
Speakers
Clare Howard
A Pharmacist with over 30 years experience working in primary and community care, in NHS management and held regional and national, strategic leadership roles. Expertise in developing and leading large and complex programmes linked to medicines including medication safety and medicines optimisation. Experienced in leading the development of national level, medicines-related data sets and tools such as the Medicines Optimisation Dashboard
Clare Thomson
Clare was one of the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer's Clinical Fellows 23-24, hosted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and worked as programme manager for the repeat prescribing toolkit.
Clare works as a lead clinical pharmacist for a primary care network, and is a training programme lead for pharmacist advanced practice at NHS England (SE region)
