Mystical Art of Modern Prescribing  06.2.19

This event was held at Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and was aimed at GPs and Advanced Nurse Practitioners

The Learning Objectives for the event were:

• Understand the risks to patients of inappropriate polypharmacy

• Understand the benefit to patients of appropriate deprescribing and practical tools to support these conversations

• Be aware of tools and resources that can support appropriate deprescibing. E.g. 

  • Patient Decision Aids

  • Local Guidelines

  • Local Pathways

  • Shared examples / learning

  • Data sources – e.g. Open prescribing, polypharmacy reports

• Be able to apply the principles of patient centred care to achieve optimised prescribing

• Understand potential benefits of pharmacists working as part of the MDT

• Understand the support on offer from the different pharmacist professions (pharmacists and technicians) working in Sheffield.

• Increased understanding of medication used in transgender.