NPCHF Webinar: Innovations in care home pharmacy practice
What does current research literature tell us?
Webinar Details
Exclusive to PCPA and NPCHF Members
Innovations in care home pharmacy practice: What does current research literature tell us?
Time: 1-2pm
Date: Tuesday 21st April 2026
With between ten or twenty research papers published every month describing and evaluating the impact of the role of pharmacy in care homes, this presentation will provide an overview of published care home research in the last 12 months, highlighting interesting new practices which may be useful to NPCHF members whilst providing some insight into the quality of the evidence and how it could potentially be improved to enhance its impact.
Key takeaways
- Pharmaceutical care within care homes continues to require enhancement with many well-known historical problems still unresolved
- Pharmacy research in care homes continues to be largely descriptive, based on service evaluations or inadequately considered randomised controlled trials
- The care home pharmacy profession may benefit from focusing more on understanding the problems which exist and why they exist before developing interventions to resolve them
Chair:
Sundus Jawad, ICS Lead Medicines Optimisation Care Homes Pharmacist, NHS Frimley
Co-chair:
Kishan Karia, Advanced Specialist Pharmacist for Care Homes, UHL NHS Trust
Speaker:
David Wright, Professor of Health Services Research, University of Leicester
Speaker
David Wright is a pharmacist who, for his PhD, provided a clinical pharmacy service to 20 care homes and 300 residents in West Yorkshire over two years. He has actively undertaken research in care home all of his career, with NIHR funding for testing multidisciplinary medication review in care homes (CAREMED), the development and testing the effectiveness of pharmacist independent prescribers working in care homes (CHIPPS) and most recently the impact of pharmacy provided flu vaccination clinics in care homes to improve staff vaccination rates (FLUCARE).
As a founder of the National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty, David strongly believes that enhancing research expertise in the care home pharmacy team is pivotal to ensuring that pharmaceutical care of care home residents continues to be enhanced by the location of evidence-based pharmacy services within this environment.
