Date
4 March 2025Location
Online via Webex, 13:00-14:00About the event
A facilitated case-based discussion about the complexities of polypharmacy and deprescribing. This is a follow on from our first webinar, which lays the foundations of some of the deprescribing tools available.
Why it’s important
The National Overprescribing review highlighted that 10% of medicines prescribed in primary care may be inappropriate and those taking 10 or more medicines are 300 times more likely to have a drug related hospital admission, highlighting the importance of deprescribing.
In England, 8.4m people are regularly prescribed 5 or more medicines, with 1 in 5 hospital admissions in over-65s caused by the adverse effects of medicines. 1 in 10 people over 65years take 8 or more medicines, rising to 1 in 4 in those over 85 years. Polypharmacy is associated with increased adverse drug outcomes, cost and medicines waste.
It is critical that clinician training or support to tackle overprescribing, encourages and facilitates shared decision-making, the importance of listening to patients, cultural competency, deprescribing, identifying adverse drug events and instances where harm outweighs benefits.
What will be covered
- Case discussion about deprescribing for a patient with polypharmacy
- Insight into ‘a person-centred approach to deprescribing and optimising medicines outcomes for patients with problematic polypharmacy’
- Discussion about the challenges that professionals commonly encounter in relation to deprescribing
Speakers
Learn more about the SPS team that are facilitating this event.
Register
Registration is now open. Once registered you will receive confirmation and a link for your diary.
Note: Our webinars are provided for colleagues providing NHS services so please register with your NHS or work-based email address. If you don’t provide NHS services or are a charity, please drop us a line to clarify your interest in this webinar.
Check your access before the event
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Joining on the day
Listen through your computer or mobile phone.
The webinar will start promptly at 13:00 so join at least 5 minutes earlier so you don’t miss important information.
Resources
The event will be recorded and this will be available on the SPS website a few days later.
Slides may not routinely be used in these webinars. If they are, they will be available after the event
Contact us
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