5th Safe Prescribing in General Practice

23rd of May 2024, 09:00 – 16:00 (Virtual)

Attendees will be given a Certificate of Participation at the end of the course, which is equivalent to 5 hours of CPD credit.

International doctors may have limited understanding of safe prescribing practices in the NHS when they arrive to work or train in General Practice. This is often because prescribing practice in the healthcare systems they have come from is different. Prescribing tasks can cause some anxiety because of limited understanding of safe prescribing practices, protocols, guidelines and formularies in the United Kingdom.

Medication errors cost the NHS millions of pounds annually, in addition to the unquantifiable human cost to the patients.

This is an interactive, hands on, one-day online course that supports you to bridge this practice gap with several prescribing tasks covering the sorts of clinical conditions and scenarios you will come across when working in General Practice. You will receive a Workbook the week before the course with editable prescribing charts and reference to the relevant guidelines and formularies that should support you to attempt the prescribing tasks. On the course, the tutors will provide you with feedback on best prescribing practice for the different tasks.

Whether it is about good antibiotic stewardship, prescribing for mental health conditions, structured medication review, shared prescribing protocols and much more, we have a team of tutors that will support learning around these topics.

Who should attend?

• General Practice Trainees
• Foundation Doctors (rotating through General Practice)

Learning Outcomes:

• Justify the need for and safely prescribe a range of antibiotics using the Local Formulary.

• Identify drugs in the shared care prescribing protocol, including those that require monitoring.

• Undertake addictive medication prescribing and structured medication review with true to life clinical scenarios and patient simulation.

• Recognise the need for good medicines reconciliation using discharge summaries and outpatient clinic letters as a resource.

• Safely prescribe medications for different mental health scenarios.

• Justify the need for and undertake prescribing in end-of-life care.

This is what participants said:

“I would definitely recommend all the trainees to attend that course at early stage of their training.”

“I feel the course is good not only for IMGs but also for all GP trainee as it is always good to have a refresher on knowledge and guidelines.”

“This course if relevant to any GP trainee, even UK graduates, especially if they have been out of training.”

“Very practical; and the time to discuss with colleagues in the breakout rooms was very useful.”

“The hypertension and diabetes management update was really good!”

“All the sessions were interactive with very useful materials.”

“All presentations were enjoyable and the content is very relevant to my practice.”

“I enjoyed the open conversations, discussions and interactive sessions.”

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