AWMSG Training Day

21 September 2022 Cardiff City Stadium 

 

This year’s AWMSG training day which took place on September 21st at Cardiff City Stadium had it all – singing, dancing and a ukulele. 

 
Iolo Doull AWMSG Chair opened the day before Ian Govier from Academi Wales who is also a competent ukulele player, gave a passionate and interesting talk on Leadership on Ice: the definitive tale of ‘lockdown’ leadership whilst getting attendees out of their comfort zone dancing and singing.

 
The afternoon included presentations by Professor Dyfrig Hughes on the Value of HTA and AWMSG decision making, Heidi Graham from ABPI spoke on Disclosure UK and Kath Haines and Richard Boldero from WAPSU presented on the National Prescribing Indicators (NPIs).

 
Another very successful day of learning.

13 January 2021 online

 

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 AWMSG Training Day was held virtually.

 

View Back to basics: A 30 minute crash course on health economics and health technology assessment presentation by Eifiona Wood, Senior Research Fellow in Pharmacoeconomics at Bangor University.

15 January 2020 at Cardiff City Stadium

 

The Annual AWMSG Training Day was held on Wednesday, 15 January 2020 in Cardiff City Stadium. As well as the members and deputies of AWMSG and its two sub-groups, the New Medicines Group (NMG) and the All Wales Prescribing Advisory Group (AWPAG), an invitation was extended to Medicines and Therapeutics Committees.

 

The key speaker was Professor Ceri Phillips, the new AWMSG Chair, who opened the day. Professor Phillips started by reflecting on the past achievements of AWMSG before setting out his vision of a new era for AWMSG. He highlighted the importance of increased collaborative working with other organisations and how he sees the role of AWMSG changing. After this, attendees worked in groups to brainstorm ways to address some key questions raised by Professor Phillips.

 

Mrs Eifiona Wood (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University), spoke about the AWMSG process for assessing medicines for a rare disease and highlighted what’s new in the AWMSG policy. The event ended with a split session, where members went to presentations aimed at their groups. Dr Catrin Plumpton (Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University) talked to AWMSG and NMG members about Markov models and how they are used for the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Dr Plumpton explained the theory, then attendees had the chance to try one themselves. Meanwhile, Dr Emily Holmes, (Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University) talked to AWPAG members about the role of economics in guideline development and led a practical session on critical appraisal.

 

The next AWMSG Training Day will be held in early 2021.

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AWMSG Training Day 2019