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Learning at lunch: rapid therapeutics update

'Learning at lunch' is a series of one-hour virtual training sessions for all healthcare professionals that are designed to be brief but informative. These quarterly sessions include updates on three therapeutic areas and a round-up of national prescribing news and changes in practice, with opportunity to ask questions and discuss each topic with leading experts.

Videos and presentations from previous sessions and details of future ones will be available here.


Next session - 2 October 2024 at 13:00 - 14:00 via Teams

Topics for this session are :

  • All Wales Adult Asthma Management and Prescribing Guidelines (Katie Pink – Consultant Respiratory Physician NHS Wales)
  • AWTTC news you can use (Sabrina Rind – Senior Pharmacist AWTTC)
  • Oral Morphine Equivalence (OME): a new unit of measurement for the opioid national prescribing indicators (NPIs) (Katherine Chaplin – Senior Scientist AWTTC and Simon Gill Pharmacist, Medicines Management Team, BCUHB)
  • Rapid therapeutics update (Tessa Lewis, General Practitioner, Aneurin Bevan UHB and Medical Advisor, AWTTC)

Book your place online here and for any further information please email awttc@wales.nhs.uk


Previous sessions

Session 5: 21 May 2024

Working together to optimise antipsychotic use in dementia (Chineze Ivenso, Elizabeth Bond and Tessa Lewis)

Resources for optimising medicine use in care homes (Emyr Jones)

Rapid therapeutics update (Tessa Lewis)

Session 4: 8 February 2024

Endocrine management of gender incongruence in adults (Sophie Quinney) PDF, 20MB

ESPAUR report & the Wales Antibacterial Resistance in Urinary Coliforms Wales 2016-2022 Report (Tessa Lewis)

Urine good hands: UTI General Practice tips from Wales UTI QAIF (Avril Tucker and Tessa Lewis)

Session 3: 25 May 2023

Chronic disease  management in General Practice - repeat prescribing and the annual medication review (Rachel Brace)

Primary care antimicrobial guidelines and CEPP audits (Meryl Davies)

Session 2: 30 March 2023

Heart failure, the Fantastic Four, Ironman and Agent K (Aaron Wong)

Heart failure (Geraint Jenkins)

National Prescribing Indicators (Claire Thomas)

Pharmacogenomics (Sophie Harding)

Session 1: 18 October 2022

Analgesic stewardship and prescribing (Emma Davies) 

Otitis media (Tessa Lewis)

Practical toxicology (Laurence Gray)

 

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