Discussion of key current medication safety challenges within healthcare with a focus on opioids. We aim to inspire partnership working across the system.

Date

29 March 2023

Location

On-line via Webex 12:30 - 14:00

About the event

This interactive session is the first of a new quarterly series about medication safety aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety and/or involved in opioid management.

Our speakers will share innovative practices that have the potential to be translated and replicated.

Why it’s important

Opioids have the potential to do more harm than good when used for chronic non-cancer pain that has no treatable cause, particularly when used at higher doses.  This session will equip healthcare professionals with insights, support, and shared learning, to tackle practice with opioids that may lead to harm.

What will be covered/what you’ll learn

  1. A discussion of key issues that impact safe opioid use within the system and on-going opioid safety programmes that align to the national strategy for patent safety.
  2. Learn how embedding a ‘personalised care approach‘ within your practice can lead to safer opioid use
  3. ‘Lived experience’ shared to understand the impact opioid safety initiatives can have that will inspire to take action.
  4. Shared exemplar practices related to opioid safety, which will allow for reflection on local practice and consideration for implementation at a local and system level.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Articulate key current issues around opioid safety
  2. Use the information shared regarding opioid safety to assess local working practices at both an organisational level and across the system
  3. Reflect on the examples shared and identify actions or responses to recommend locally, in order to improve safe practice
  4. Take opportunities to network with peers to inform the development of appropriate local and system wide responses to opioid safety concerns

Speakers

Guest speakers include

Tony Jamieson

Patient Safety Specialist & Clinical Improvement Lead, Medicines Safety Improvement Programme, NHS England

Keynote – Prof Alf Collins

National Clinical Director for Personalised Care, NHS England

Dr Kirstie Anderson

North East and North Cumbria AHSN

Sara Izadi

ICB Medication Safety Lead, NW London ICB

Joanne Peh

Head of Hounslow PCN Pharmacy and Social Prescriber Services, Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust.

Gill Gookey

Medicines Safety Lead Pharmacist, East Midlands Academic Health Science Network

More to be confirmed…

SPS Speakers

The meeting will be led by Anna and Emma.  Barry will be your MC and Nicola will monitor the chat box.

Please see below for more details

Registration

You can register here for the webinar

You will receive confirmation and a link for your diary.

Note: Our webinars are provided for colleagues providing NHS services so please register with your NHS or work-based email address. If you don’t provide NHS services or are a charity, please drop us a line to clarify your interest in this webinar.

Check your access before the event

Check that you are able to access Webex prior to the event.
If you’re still having difficulty, you may need to contact your IT department to assist you in opening the application (you’ll only have to do this once).

Joining on the day

Listen through your computer or mobile phone.
The webinar will start promptly at 12:30 so join at least 10 minutes earlier so you don’t miss important information.

Dial in

Alternatively you can dial in on 0203 478 5289
Event No: 2377 773 5782
Event password: Attend

Resources

The event will be recorded and this will be available on the SPS website a few days later.
Slides may not be routinely used in these webinars, but if they are they will be available after the event

Contact

Please contact the admin team if you have any questions.