Option 4 - Improving population level care in heart failure: Patient support by the Renal Specialist Team

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Satellite Option 4 - Improving population level care in heart failure: Patient support by the Renal Specialist Team
Speakers 1) Paul Forsyth, Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Cardiology (Primary Care) / Heart Failure Specialist, West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital, Scotland 2) Christopher Brown, Consultant Renal Pharmacist, Swansea, Wales
Satellite Description

Theme 6 is How Can The Quality Of Care Be Improved?

Paul Forsyth worked as a Heart Failure Pharmacist from 2004 before becoming Lead Pharmacist for Clinical Cardiology in Primary Care in 2016. He is an Observer to the Board of the British Society for Heart Failure and co-chair of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) Heart Failure Group. In a clinical capacity, he has developed pharmacist-led clinics for post-MI patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction across seven hospitals and adjoining primary care localities in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. He is currently also rolling out this service across parts of NHS Scotland. He has previously presented research at European Society of Cardiology, American Heart Association, British Society for Heart Failure and the North American Primary Care Research Group. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Pharmacy School. Through his UKCPA work, he has also recently published a curriculum for pharmacists specialising in heart failure.

Improving population level care in heart failure

Advanced and specialist practice within pharmacy is an evolving discipline. Heart failure is a growing public health burden across the globe but is an area where pharmacists have an evidence base for improving outcomes. This session will discuss the epidemiology of heart failure, the role of the clinical pharmacists and the strategic context. Prescribing outcomes and patient-reported evaluation of pharmacist-led clinics across seven acute hospitals and associated primary care localities in Glasgow will be presented. The newly published UKCPA Heart Failure Group clinical pharmacist competency framework, designed to support such roles, will also be discussed.

Chris Brown is not known for conforming to conventional norms. Under his watch pharmacy is professionally-integrated. His approach is a discrete service for kidney care - on a large scale.  His Renal Medicines Service is multi-professional, egalitarian and organised around people with kidney disease. Here, the team are free to think differently, be digitally innovative, bring about disruptive change, work at the very top of their licence and demonstrate the very best of value-based and prudent healthcare. Chris is passionate about the NHS. He has received many awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He is the national lead for the Welsh Renal Clinical Network, delivering national policy and innovative treatment strategies across Wales. As a Consultant Pharmacist for the South West Wales Renal Region he is a clinical practitioner, an independent prescriber and authoriser of blood (and component) transfusion. He has research and teaching affiliations with the University of Swansea. Chris is an expert adviser for NICE, a guideline development group member for the NCGC and the UK Renal Association. He is driven by clinical research that enables better patient care and is an investigator and author in trials.

‘Patient support by the Renal Specialist Team’

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