Polypharmacy and deprescribing (NEW 2021)

Online Course • PrescQIPP

About the CPD course

This course is aimed at GPs; nurse prescribers; PCN and practice pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; medicines optimisation teams and community pharmacists. It is an update to the original 2017 courses (long and concise) and reflects the increased knowledge and evidence in this area. The course is broken down into eight modules covering: Introduction to polypharmacy and deprescribing; National and international resources; Evidence base for deprescribing; Frailty and multimorbidity; Agreeing treatment goals; Medication review; Tools to help with medication review and How to deprescribe. There are also four practical case studies; covering Prescribing cascades; Shared decision making; Medication review and Multimorbidity.

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PrescQIPP

We are an NHS funded not-for-profit organisation that supports quality, optimised prescribing for patients. We produce evidence-based resources and tools for primary care commissioners, and provide a platform to share innovation across the NHS. Most of our materials are publicly available, however we also provide a range of data and intelligence tools, webinars and events for our subscribers. We also aim to engage with a broad range of stakeholders including patients and carer groups, the pharmaceutical industry and voluntary sector organisations.