Location

Online via WebEx at 12:30-14:00

About the event

This interactive session is part of the ‘Medication Safety Across the System’ (MSATS) series aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety and/or involved in medicines use. 

Our speakers will share innovative practices addressing the challenges in medicines use in palliative and end of life care to inspire and equip the audience, ready for translation and replication across systems. 

Why it’s important

Palliative and end of life care is complex, involving a wide range of patient groups and professionals across the healthcare system. Safe management of medicines requires knowledge and skills across all sectors. Treatment often includes unlicensed, off-label, and controlled drugs with potential for misuse. Timely access, especially out of hours, adds further challenge, making safe medication use challenging during these highly emotive periods.

Implementation of safety strategies to support the safer use of medicines in palliative and end of life care requires a collaborative and system-wide approach to ensure safe and sustainable improvements. 

This 8:45 minutes podcast explores some of the known issues which challenges the safe use of medicines in services and, the impact these have for patient, carers and loved ones.

NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service · Understanding safe use of medicines challenges in palliative and end of life care

What will be covered

  • A discussion of factors that add complexities to the safe prescribing, supply and administration of medicines for palliative and end of life care 
  • Shared exemplar practices related to the safer use of medicines in palliative and end of life care, which will allow for reflection on local practice and consideration for replication at a local and wider healthcare system level 
  • Opportunities to network with peers to inform the development of appropriate local and system wide responses to safety concerns 

Learning outcomes

  • Articulate key safety issues related to the prescribing, supply and administration of medicines for palliative and end of life care 
  • Understand the importance of clear communication and documentation accessible to all healthcare professionals involved in the care of these patients 
  • Understand the benefit of clear guidance, procedures and policies to support safer use of medicines in palliative and end of life care 
  • Reflect on examples shared and identify actions or responses to recommend locally, in order to improve safe practice

Speakers

A range of speakers from SPS and other organisations will run this event.

Non-SPS speakers

Melinda Presland

Consultant Pharmacist, Palliative & End of Life Care, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; co-lead for the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care

Further speakers will be announced shortly

SPS Speakers

Learn more about SPS team members who are speaking.

Register

You can now register for this event. Once registered 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.  

We recommend installing the Cisco WebEx app, or, alternatively, accessing the meeting via Google Chrome. If you are 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 but please join at least 5 minutes earlier so you don’t miss important information. 

Dial in

If you experience trouble accessing the meeting from your computer, you can always dial in and listen through your phone. Once registered, please see your event invitation or contact the event admin (details below) for further information. 

Resources

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

Contact us

Please contact the admin team if you have any questions.