Polypharmacy and End of Life Lunchtime Masterclass
The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy: Getting the Balance Right Programme aims to support local systems and primary care to identify patients at potential risk of harm and support better conversations about medicines by promoting shared decision making.
Getting medication right towards the end of life is a real challenge:
- How do we know when someone is approaching the end of life?
- How do we balance potential benefits of medicines with their increasing burden in someone who seems likely to die over the coming weeks or months ?
- How do we share those decisions with patients or those who care for them?
- What medications might be safely discontinued?
- Are there any medications we should not stop?
- What happens when someone can no longer take ‘essential’ medications orally?
Our Guest Speakers are Dr Saskie Holmes, lead clinician for the palliative care multi disciplinary team at Forest Holme Hospice and Dr Lucy Pollock, geriatrician at Somerset Foundation Trust. The masterclass will also include a Q&A session.
Who should attend?
Our Polypharmacy Masterclass Series is open to GPs, Pharmacists, Nurse prescribers and other interested health professionals.
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