Date
29 March 2023Location
On-line via Webex 12:30 - 14:00About the event
This interactive session was the first of a new quarterly series about medication safety aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety and/or involved in opioid management.
Our speakers shared innovative practices that have the potential to be translated and replicated.
Why it’s important
Opioids have the potential to do more harm than good when used for chronic non-cancer pain that has no treatable cause, particularly when used at higher doses. This session will equip healthcare professionals with insights, support, and shared learning, to tackle practice with opioids that may lead to harm.
What was covered:
- A discussion of key issues that impact safe opioid use within the system and on-going opioid safety programmes that align to the national strategy for patent safety.
- Learn how embedding a ‘personalised care approach‘ within your practice can lead to safer opioid use
- ‘Lived experience’ shared to understand the impact opioid safety initiatives can have that will inspire to take action.
- Shared exemplar practices related to opioid safety, which will allow for reflection on local practice and consideration for implementation at a local and system level.
Learning outcomes:
- Articulate key current issues around opioid safety
- Use the information shared regarding opioid safety to assess local working practices at both an organisational level and across the system
- Reflect on the examples shared and identify actions or responses to recommend locally, in order to improve safe practice
- Take opportunities to network with peers to inform the development of appropriate local and system wide responses to opioid safety concerns
Speakers
We have a range of speakers from SPS and other organisations.
Guest speaker
We were joined by the following speakers.
Tony Jamieson
Patient Safety Specialist & Clinical Improvement Lead, Medicines Safety Improvement Programme, NHS England
Keynote – Professor Alf Collins
National Clinical Director for Personalised Care, NHS England
Dr Kirstie Anderson
Consultant Neurologist, Regional Sleep Service, Newcastle
Sara Izadi
ICB Medication Safety Lead, NW London ICB
Joanne Peh
Head of Hounslow PCN Pharmacy and Social Prescriber Services, Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
Khatija Choudry
Senior lead PCN clinical pharmacist, Feltham & Bedfont Primary Care Network and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Gill Gookey
Medicines Safety Lead Pharmacist, East Midlands Academic Health Science Network
SPS speakers
The meeting was led by Anna and Emma. Barry was MC, while Nicola monitored the chat box.
Please see below for more details:
Resources
We are grateful to our colleagues for recording the following videos.
Recordings
Information presented during this webinar and associated videos is correct at time of recording. Current guidance should be followed.
Webinar recording
A lived experience with opioids – The patient voice
Louise Trewern has recorded an interview discussing her experience with opioids.
Having positive conversations with patients on long term opioids
Dr Nat Wright & Dr Caroline Watson share their experiences about how to have positive and constructive consultations with patients on long term opioids
Presentation resources
System Safety Update – Opioids Mar 23
A resource collating the latest medication safety communications and publications with a special focus on opioids. Intended to inform, support and inspire medication safety improvements.
Contact
Please contact the admin team if you have any questions.
Feedback
Did you attend our ‘Medication Safety Across the System – opioid safety’ webinar in March 2023, listen to the event recording in the past year, or watch one of our associated videos about improving safety with opioids? If so, we would love to hear from you! Please provide us with feedback by completing our short survey.