Clinical Skills
Enhance your clinical knowledge and update your skills.
Networking
Connect with peers and potential collaborators.
Expert Speakers
Hear from professionals who are leading experts in their field.
About this event
Develop your clinical knowledge through interactive practical workshops and delivered by nationally renowned experts.
This event is FREE and open to all Pharmacy Professionals. Places are limited and priority given to PCPA members.
Key points:
- Refreshments and lunch are provided.
- There is a £50 "No Show" fee, if you do not attend. Latest cancellation is 48hrs prior to the event.
- Once your place has been confirmed, we will be contacting ALL confirmed registrants to confirm attendance prior to the event.
- Pictures of the event will be taken to be used in promotional mailings to PCPA members. If you do not wish for your photo to be taken, please advise the PCPA registration desk on the day.
Please note:
This event will be sponsored by pharmaceutical companies through the purchase of Exhibition stands.
These companies have had no input into the design or content of the event agenda, except where a company has a separate company sponsored workshop. This will be shown on the event details.
The following companies have provided funding only for this PCPA conference as part of a sponsorship. They have had no input into the content, organisation, conduct, or outputs relating to the Event.
Attending sponsors: A. Menarini Farmaceutica Internazionale SRL | Daiichi Sankyo | Lupin Healthcare (UK)
Guest Exhibitors: AbbVie |AstraZeneca | Ridge Pharma | TriOn Pharma | Viatris TBC
Information at these stands is intended for UK Healthcare professionals only.
09.00 - 09.30 Registration: Meet, greet and network with colleagues from across your region
09.30 - 09.40 Introduction to the day: Chair Scott Gill, PCPA Regional Vice President
09.40 - 09.45 Welcome to PCPA: Glynis McMurtry
09.45 - 11.15 Workshop 1: Students split into 4 groups to rotate around 4 stations within each of the groups
Practical Clinical Skills: Improving Outcomes Through Practice:
Heart sink moments: responding to unexpected findings in cardiovascular investigations.
Practical consideration for managing patients with abnormal rate or rhythm and cardiac presentations during routine blood pressure checks. Interpreting available investigations, making a treatment plan, and developing clinical skills:
- Blood Pressure presented by Maura Corry
- Cardio Examination AliveCor presented by Michael Ogilby
Respiratory investigation
Enhance respiratory examination skills during routine asthma and COPD clinics. Participants will develop confidence in structured respiratory assessment using respiratory examination torso, recognition of red flags, and appropriate escalation and referral to ensure timely specialist input.
Presented by Judith Gray
Complex cases - Interactive workshop:
Improve confidence in navigating complex patients with multiple concurrent presentations which may include common long-term conditions to more specific areas such as; CKD, osteoporosis, gout, serotonin syndrome, constipation and hypothyroidism. Participants will develop skills in appropriate laboratory test selection and interpretation, formulation of evidence-based treatment plans, and clinical decision-making around monitoring and follow-up. Practical case studies will be used to reflect real-world scenarios.
Presented by Scott Gill & Clare Murray
11.15 - 11.45 Refreshment break and exhibition
11.45 - 12.35 Workshop 2
Asthma guideline updates for patients aged 6+ with practical examples for implementation in Primary Care.
Speaker: Dr Dara O'Donoghue, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician RBHSC, Clinical Senior Lecturer QUB and Northern Ireland Paediatric Asthma Lead
Transforming COPD care: Preventing hospitalisation with Primary care interventions.
Speaker: Dr Richard Hewitt, Respiratory Consultant, Ulster Hospital
*This is a promotional symposium workshop has been sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca and is intended for UK HCPs only
12.35 - 13.35 Lunch and exhibition
13.35 - 14.25 Workshop 3
The Rise of CVRM Care - Managing Common Co-morbidities as One. Speaker: Helen Williams- Consultant Pharmacist and National Clinical Director for CVD Prevention
Key points:
- Describe the inter-relationship between cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
- Improve identification of patients at cardio-renal-metabolic risk using routine primary care data and clinical markers.
- Enhance medicines optimisation by applying evidence-based therapies with proven cardiovascular and renal benefit.
14.25 - 14.45 Refreshment break and exhibition
14.45 - 15.20 Workshop 4
The Rise of CVRM Care - Managing Common Co-morbidities as One - Case Based Discussions Workshop. Speaker: Helen Williams- Consultant Pharmacist and National Clinical Director for CVD Prevention
Explore the complexity of CVRM management with some real life case discussion.
15.20 - 15.40 Round up: Highlights from complex studies, learnings from the day and close - Chair: Scott Gill, PCPA Regional Vice President
15.40 Close
Please note:
All places will be confirmed but are on a provisional basis. PCPA will contact all registrants to confirm their final place.
PCPA provide all sponsors/exhibitors with a full delegate list. This includes name, job title and county and does not contain any contact details. By registering for this event, you are in agreement with this information to be shared in a closed environment.
