Option 4 - Pharmacy Anywhere: Is the wrong prescription ever right?

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Satellite Option 4 - Pharmacy Anywhere: Is the wrong prescription ever right?
Speakers 1) Claire Morrison, Senior Clinical Quality Lead, NHS Highland, Scotland 2) Kate McNamara, Practice Pharmacist, Fforestfach Medical Centre, Swansea, Wales
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Theme 2 asks: Polypharmacy – Good Or Bad?

Claire Morrison, Senior Clinical Quality Lead, NHS Highland, Scotland

Claire Morrison is currently leading the development of the telehealth service ‘NHS Near Me’, and has a special interest in delivering services in remote and rural areas. Clare is a senior pharmacist with extensive experience of developing pharmacy services and medicines safety initiatives, such as the ‘Medicine Sick Day Rules’ cards. She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a Scottish Quality & Safety Fellow, and a graduate of the Intermountain Advanced Training Program in quality improvement. Clare was awarded an MBE for services to healthcare in 2018.

‘Pharmacy Anywhere – using telehealth to deliver pharmaceutical care’

Pharmacy Anywhere started with a problem: NHS Highland has a large remote and rural area, and a need to provide pharmaceutical care for patients of dispensing practices. Recruitment of pharmacists in remote areas is challenging, and asking pharmacists to drive to these locations is a waste of their professional time. So NHS Highland turned to telehealth. Pharmacy Anywhere uses two forms of telehealth to deliver pharmaceutical care: remote access to medical records and remote consulting with patients at home. Patients receive a medication review with a pharmacist who ensures their medicines are safe and effective by providing advice and using prescribing to change medicines where necessary. The result is a service that is not only a solution for rural areas but also a way to provide sustainability to pharmaceutical care services everywhere. It delivers a more responsive service and enables pharmacists to live and work exactly where they want. Most importantly, it’s a service that patients like.

 

Kate Macnamara, Practice Pharmacist, Fforestfach Medical Centre, Swansea, Wales

Kate Macnamara graduated from Cardiff University in 2008 and spent her early career in hospital pharmacy, where she completed her Clinical Diploma at the University of Bath. She made the transition to primary care in 2015 and qualified as an Independent Prescriber the following year. Her scope of practice includes hypertension, anticoagulation, pain management and heart failure. Outside of work, she is a keen supporter of the ‘Time to Change Wales’ campaign, raising awareness about mental health conditions. In her spare time, she is kept busy by her two miniature dachshunds.

Polypharmacy - is the wrong prescription ever right?’

Polypharmacy has been a major focus for the Primary Care Pharmacist for a number of years. Overdue medication reviews, prescription reauthorisations, targets and cost saving initiatives all add to the demand for reduced prescription numbers. But in an environment full of guidelines, ‘do not do’ recommendations and ever-dwindling GP numbers, is what was once a safety-focused exercise leading us to lose sight of the patient in front of us? With an ageing population developing new co-morbidities every day, how do we help those most in need? Can polypharmacy ever be useful?

This session will discuss the practical issues around managing complex prescribing in a range of patient groups - from Care Home residents to the young person with multiple repeats.

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