Have we got it all wrong? Reflections of an ex hospital consultant pharmacist now working in general practice
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| Satellite | Have we got it all wrong? Reflections of an ex hospital consultant pharmacist now working in general practice | |||
| Speakers | Steve Williams (Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Westbourne Medical Centre, Dorset; Non Medical Prescribing representative on the NHS Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee (South); Clinical Fellow Health Education England (Medication Safety); Honorary Clinical Lecturer University of Manchester Pharmacy School) | |||
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This presentation will present the strains and successes of an NHS trained consultant pharmacist moving from secondary to primary care. The challenges of Medicines Optimisation in this world of problematic polypharmacy, overdiagnosis, and medicalisation is becoming ever more difficult. I will describe why I think we must move from the frantic "Mr Monkey/ Discharge Donkey" hospital pharmaceutical care model to the person centred primary care model that is so needed for people like Freda, Samir , John , Milan .......
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