Concepts always can catch the imagination but turning concepts in to reality can be often test the resolve of many a good NHS professional.
Over the last few years pharmacy has been entrusted with the development of Medicines Optimisation but central to the success of this process is the engagement of patients in the dialogue and the move towards the betterment of outcomes.
Professor Nina Barnett (Consultant Pharmacist) has specialised in this patient interface and has produced a number of aids to assist in pharmacists in taking patients with them on the journey towards Medicines Optimisation
Come and hear “Engaging with Patients to maximise Medicines Optimisation” by Professor Nina Barnett at the Pharmacy Management FORUM WORKSHOP

The NHS is a big beast at the best of times and communication can be challenging.
Imagine how that must be stretched and put under pressure when the patient’s medicines are being managed between the Acute Hospital and organisations out there in community land.
In a busy NHS that is dealing on a daily basis with tens of thousands of patients , the potential for errors must be magnified.
Come and hear Dr David Cousins PhD, FRPharmS deliver
“What does good Governance look like in Homecare?” at the Pharmacy Management FORUM WORKSHOP

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.

The agenda for the Pharmacy Management National Forum Workshop has been released today, and you may think it looks a bit stripped down, so I thought I’d take a moment to explain why we’ve made the changes.

Feedback from last year’s event was overwhelmingly positive and constructive, and a key message was that people like the satellites and they like putting their own day together from a range of choices. They thought 45 minutes wasn’t enough for some subjects and they wanted 4 satellites rather than 3 if possible.

We looked long and hard at the options, but one thing we pride ourselves on at PM is that events finish when we say they will, and we wanted to close the meeting before the rush hour to help people’s travel plans.

Then it struck us – who says a meeting has to have plenaries? If delegates want networking and satellites, that’s what we’ll have. In just over six hours we’ve fitted four 1-hour satellites and 130 minutes of networking.

We’ll have 28 satellites so at any given time slot you’ll have a choice of seven.

Registration opens on 14th September.