Scottish National Seminar

“Pharmacy for the future – building on strong foundations”

30 September - 1 October 2017, Stirling

The seminar’s mixture of plenary and practice ‘hot topic’ sessions is an excellent opportunity to learn from your peers, extend your networks across pharmacy and cement how the profession can enhance patient care and services.

Bookings for the event are now closed!

NEW (November 2017): RPS members can now access a wealth of resources from the event including workshop presentations and research posters.

Event resources

Workshop presentations

Workshop 1: Improving acute and chronic pain management – in day to day practice

Workshop 2: Achieving excellence in pharmaceutical care – how can we make the vision a reality?

2.1 Long term conditions management and integrated pharmaceutical care: the journey to being decision makers and partners in care – are we there yet?

2.2 How to develop community pharmacy independent prescribing (IP) models for minor illness.

Workshop 3: Improving pharmaceutical care in care homes – a call to action

WORKSHOP 4: HOW CAN PHARMACY STEM THE RISING TIDE OF OTC AND PRESCRIBED OPIOID ANALGESIC DEPENDENCE (OAD)?

Workshop 5: Building the pharmacy contribution to health and social care integration, one person at a time through reablement

Workshop 6: Improving mental health and well being - How can pharmacists make every intervention count?

Research posters

Application of consensus methods to refine high risk medicine care bundle (Natalie Weir)

Quality improvement tools to improve safe use of high risk medicines: evaluation of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme – Pharmacy in Primary Care Collaborative (Natalie Weir)

Community pharmacist clinical portal enabled access to aspects of patients' primary andsecondary care electronic health records: exploring the general public’s views in NHS Tayside (Katie MacLure)

Scottish Adherence to Antihypertensive Medication in the Elderly (SAAME) study: promoting evidence - based community pharmacy services (Katie MacLure)

What supports hospital pharmacist prescribing? - A mixed methods, exploratory sequential study (Julie Fisher)

Developing a Vocational Training (VT) Foundation Programme for Early Year Pharmacists in Scotland (Dr Ailsa Power)

Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project (MRPP): Phase 2 (Alison MacRobbie)

Palliative Care Patient Perceptions and Experiences of Medicines Information Communication in a Community Pharmacy: A Grounded Theory Approach (Alison MacRobbie)

Audit of Newly Initiated Opioids against Practice Opioid Prescribing Policy carried out in NHS Fife GP Practices (Deborah Steven)