We are pleased to offer this one day event for Non-Medical Prescribers. The lectures will be delivered by Pharmacists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Allied Health Professionals & more and encourage active audience participation. Delegates should be health care professionals with a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification. 

Since moving our Study Day to a virtual offering, we've seen a huge increase in attendance & engagement with several hundred attendees joining us from around the world to continue their professional development! The feedback we've received has been fantastic and we're delighted to invite you to join our latest event.

We're also excited to announce the first LSBU Paediatric NMP CPD Study Day! This will take place on 1st July 2022 and will cover topics including:

• The role of a non medical prescribing physiotherapist in paediatric neurodisability
• Prescribing for Children as a Clinical Site Practitioner
• Prescribing for children in Primary Care

You can find out more information & register here.

The cost to attend will be £30 per person plus booking fee (previously £90 when held on campus) and this should be paid when booking your ticket on Eventbrite. You will need to liaise with your employer for reimbursement.

Those who attend, and sign-in on the day, will be sent an electronic certificate around 2 weeks after the event takes place. The event will not be recorded.

We are also planning to debut another event later this year on 22 November: A spotlight on NMP at LSBU. We'll share more details on this nearer the time!

Programme outline

9.15am - Introduction to the day

9.30am - Prescribing for adult patients with epilepsy - Trudy Thomas, Senior Lecturer, Medway School of Pharmacy and Epilepsy Specialist Pharmacists, Medway NHS Foundation Trust and Kent &Medway CCG

10.20am - The NHS Patient Safety Strategy 2019. To High Reliability and Beyond? - Dr David Newbold MSc(Econ) PhD, SFHEA, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Quality Improvement, LSBU

11.10am - Break

11.20am - Examining the impact of nonmedical prescribing on the role identity of physiotherapists – A mixed methods study - Colin Waldock, Lecturer, Medway School of Pharmacy, Universities of Kent and Greenwich

12.10pm - Lunch

12.40pm - Non Medical Prescribing in End of Life Care - Asha Bhulia, Specialist Palliative Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Barking, Havering, Redbridge University Trust (BHRUT)

1.30pm - Drug Monitoring in Primary Care - Ahmed Ameer, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, HMC Health

2.20pm - Break

2.30pm - Prescribing for people with type two diabetes, guidance, clinical considerations and effects of the Covid pandemic - Linda Nazarko, West London NHS Trust

3.20pm – Closing remarks

3.30pm - Close

This Study Day will be delivered via Zoom Webinar. You will receive the joining instructions the day before the event takes place.

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Biographies

Trudy Tomas - Trudy Thomas qualified as a pharmacist in 1988. For the next 14 years, she combined community pharmacy with work for the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education, the National Pharmaceutical Association, and a number of South East England primary care organisations, as a prescribing advisor.

Trudy joined the Medway School of Pharmacy (jointly owned by the Universities of Kent and Greenwich) in 2004 where she is currently a Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies. She has been the lead for the school’s postgraduate certificate in independent and supplementary prescribing since 2004. In 2015 Trudy qualified as an Independent Prescriber herself in the area of epilepsy. She currently works two days per week as an Epilepsy Specialist Pharmacist at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and the Kent and Medway Clinical commissioning Group. In this role she runs clinics for patients with complex medication needs, taking referrals from the consultants, GPs, nurses and pharmacist colleagues.

Trudy’s research interests involve medicines use in epilepsy and on aspects to do with prescribing. Her other area of interest is the pharmacist’s role in supporting physical activity which is the area in which she undertook her PhD. Trudy was part of the Pharmacy Planning Group for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and has contributed to pharmacy services at other major sporting events.

In her spare time, she runs, cycles, swims and plays the flute but not all at the same time!!.

David Newbold - David is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Change Management Practitioner, and Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, with an academic interest in patient safety. He currently teaches process and quality improvement on the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, and on the MSc in Leadership and Service Improvement, at LSBU, where he also supervises postgraduate dissertation students. Prior to LSBU, he designed and led a BSc in Health Services Management, and in his early clinical career worked as a critical care nurse. For six years he was an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Nursing Management, acting as guest editor on three occasions, and was an Editorial Board Member of Nursing Standard.

Colin Waldock - Colin was one of the first physiotherapist independent/ supplementary prescribers in the country qualifying as a prescriber in 2006. He has been a physiotherapist in clinical practice for 36 years recently moving to academia to concentrate on his passion for integrating prescribing with in physiotherapy. He is currently a lecturer with the postgraduate team at Medway School of Pharmacy, which enjoys a unique collaboration with both the Universities of Kent and Greenwich where he teaches prescribing to interprofessional groups of students. Colin is currently in the 4th year of a part time PhD in which he is investigating the impact on role identity for physiotherapists when they undertake prescribing.

In addition, he manages a forum on LinkedIn for AHP prescribers (newcomers always welcome) as well as being an external examiner for the pre reg MSc Physiotherapy Programme at Sheffield Hallam and V100/V300 prescribing programmes at University of Cumbria. He recently presented at the 2nd International e-conference on physiotherapy, physical rehabilitation and sports medicine and has a publication waiting for final confirmation on the theme of medicine management and physiotherapists with the Journal of Prescribing Practice

Asha Bhulia - I am currently working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care at BHRUT NHS Trust, whilst creating a new job plan as the first Advanced Nurse Practitioner within the team. I have been in my current role for five years. Prior to this, I worked as a haematology-oncology nurse in a stem cell transplant unit in the NHS and thereafter, at two private hospitals. I was trained in autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation, administered chemotherapy, and assisted in apheresis. Throughout this time, I completed independent Msc modules at The Marsden, focused on haematology-oncology.

I changed career paths around five years ago and joined The Specialist Palliative Care Team at BHRUT. I pursued non-medical prescribing in 2017, as an independent module, and then decided to start an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice in 2019. The main goal for me was to remain ‘hands on’ and very much clinical in my current role, whilst developing my education and leadership skills. I have learnt in depth history taking, multiple system examinations and pathophysiology, to be able to apply the theoretical aspects to practice. I have found this invaluable to my current role and the care that I am able to give my patients.

The presentation aims to highlight some of my experiences within my current role, and some case-based scenarios, which are useful to understand some of the difficulties we are face within specialist palliative care. The tips and advice section are again from personal experiences and I share some useful points, that I hope you will be able to take forward.

Ahmed Ameer - Ahmed is a senior clinical pharmacist at a group of GP practices in Hounslow since 2016. Recently completed a PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practice from King’s College and has a PhD in medication safety from University of Hertfordshire. Ahmed is passionate about patient safety and systems. Interested in management of chronic disease.

Linda Nazarko - Linda Nazarko, is consultant nurse at West London NHS Trust. She leads a team of nurse practitioners. Her work involves seeing, treating and supporting community and inpatients, staff education, strategic work and policy development. She has just finished a secondment working as clinical lead in a mass vaccination centre.

She was previously consultant nurse at London North West working within inpatients, intermediate care and community. She was also clinical lead for the IV service and for dementia. Linda has set up and managed nurse led services, clinics and inpatient wards. She has written several books, contributes to nursing journals and lectures nationally and internationally

Her presentation will discuss prescribing for people with type two diabetes using national guidance and clinical considerations during the ongoing Covid pandemic.