Adherence and Optimisation - the pharmacists' role in asthma care

Presentation Overview: This session will focus on understanding the role and value that pharmacists can bring in improving adherence and optimisation of respiratory care. Being equipped to provide the best care for your patients & making sure you are doing what’s necessary for good respiratory care. Topics will include adherence, medicines management and translation of guidelines into local practice.

Why should delegates attend: Gain insights into being equipped to provide the best care for patients & highlighting the pharmacists role in good respiratory care.

What are the key learning points from the presentation: 

• Pharmacists do more than perceived, have a unique role
• Pharmacists are detectives, holistic within MDT
• Work smarter, not harder!
• Reducing/avoiding preventable harm
• Supporting self-management
• Logical prescribing

This session has been organised and funded by GSK.

Speaker Biography

Ms Ravijyot Saggu studied Pharmacy (BPharm) at the London School of Pharmacy, University of London and graduated in 1999. She went onto pursue a career in hospital pharmacy undertaking further post graduate study, gaining the certificate and diploma in clinical Pharmacy with subsequent further respiratory study. She currently works at the University College Hospital London NHS Foundation trust for Medicine and Emergency Services with an interest in Respiratory Medicine and is an honorary clinical lecturer for the London School of Pharmacy (UCL). She is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (undertaking membership of its faculty, as well as being an Independent prescriber) and a member of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association