With the changes in structure in NHS England over the last few years , good communication between secondary care and primary care has been a taxing situation.
Membership of Area Prescribing Committees has reflected these boundary changes and it is only now that the first signs of continuity are breaking through.
Nowhere better than in South London where Vanessa Burgess and her team have worked with Clinicians to forge a bridgehead and platform for improved patient care across the interface. Hear Vanessa describe how it was done: “Creating a Treatment Pathway for the modern NHS – an example” at the Pharmacy Management FORUM WORKSHOP.

Since the Hackett Report on Homecare in 2012 the world has moved on in many different ways in the interpretation of its thoughts and recommendations.
Local circumstances and geography have always played their part in NHS decision-making and this initiative has been no exception.
How better, therefore, than to examine the development of Homecare Strategies in the Capital City?
We have asked Phillip Aubrey of the London Procurement Partnership to share his experiences and learnings from across all major hospitals in London and to draw some conclusions as to successes and initiatives that maybe did not initially “cut the mustard”
Come and hear “A Helicopter View of HOMECARE” Philip Aubrey (London Procurement Partnership) at the Pharmacy Management FORUM WORKSHOP.