Open to non-SAPC members.
2nd February – 2.30pm to 4.00pm via Zoom (NB: this meeting will be recorded)
Please register to attend here A Zoom link will be sent closer to the event date.
Discussion: How to build pharmacy research
1. Engaging pharmacy professionals in multidisciplinary primary care research: learning from current landscape
Natasha Callender, Clinical Academic Careers in Pharmacy Project Lead, NHS England
Natasha is former Future Practice Advisor and Chief Pharmaceutical Officers Clinical Fellow (2019-21) at NHS England. During her time at NHS England she led on the delivery of a number of projects including clinical academic careers in pharmacy which resulted in a UK-wide Call For Evidence. She is a NIHR Masters of Clinical Research Studentship awardee and has wide ranging clinical experience in secondary care, primary care networks and community health services.
Christine Bond, Emeritus Professor and past Head of Centre of Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen
Christine is a pharmacist and health services researcher. Her posts have all been based in Academic Primary Care at the University of Aberdeen. Her career has also included working in community and hospital pharmacy and for 16 years she was seconded part time as Chief Pharmacist for NHS Grampian. She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice (IJPP), immediate past Chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Science and Research Board, co-lead for the RPS-NIHR e-learning programme for research and co-Chair of the NHSE Short Life Working Group to develop a clinical academic career pathway for pharmacy. She is a previous member of the SAPC Executive.
2. The role of SAPC in supporting pharmacy led and medication optimisation research. Professor Rupert Payne, Professor of Primary Care & Clinical Pharmacology, University of Exeter
Rupert is an academic GP and clinical pharmacologist, with research interests in all aspects of medicines use in primary care and a particular focus on polypharmacy. He is co-chair of SAPC, and co-leads the Medicines Optimisation and Prescribing Special Interest Group.
3. Any questions (also use the chat function on Zoom).
4. Other SIG business (if time allows)
- Minutes of last meeting
- SAPC ASM in July - https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2023
- Possible Newsletter: See example from Quality and Safety Improvement in Primary Care SIG https://sapc.ac.uk/file/sapc-qasi-newletter-a1-pdf
- Under-represented groups call: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/rfpb-under-represented-disciplines-and-specialisms-highlight-notice-nurses-and-midwives-call-specification-stage-1/32050
- For Information - RCGP e-learning resources (see below)
- Date for next meeting – May 2022
RCGP e-learning resources
Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy
This course invites learners to think differently about multimorbidity and polypharmacy.
There are three 30-minute modules and two five-minute 'screencasts' which give a taster of the three longer modules
Module 1 - Polypharmacy, multimorbidity and the treatment burden
This module introduces the concept of ‘burden of treatment’ with a particular focus on how it impacts patients affected by multimorbidity and polypharmacy. You are invited to reflect on how the burden of treatment plays out in the lives of patients and their social networks and to consider how you might apply this concept to improve your care of older patients with multimorbidity. This module focuses on polypharmacy in community settings.
Module 2 - Polypharmacy, multimorbidity and the medication review
This module asks clinicians to reflect on how they go about doing a medication review. Many factors shape how medication reviews play out in practice. Practitioners taking this module will reflect on the purpose of medication reviews, what makes a good medication review, how to approach conversations about medicines with patients and some of the factors which influence how a medication review proceeds.
Module 3 – Medicines: whose knowledge counts?
This module introduces the concept of epistemic injustice - a form of prejudice that arises from a wrong done to someone in their capacity as a ‘knower’. Using polypharmacy as a case example, you will learn how the circulation of epistemic injustice within the health care system disempowers people and can lead to inertia. This module will equip you with tools on how to challenge epistemic injustice in the context of polypharmacy.
Screencast 1 - Polypharmacy: it’s time to think differently
Screencast 2 - Polypharmacy: thinking differently about the medication review
You can log in (or register for a free e-learning account) here and can access the course here