Why attend?

These sessions are for GPs and primary care clinicians with 12 months' prescribing experience from the Wessex health innovation network region.

The Polypharmacy Action Learning Set (ALS) is an evidence-based learning model developed by Health Innovation Wessex (formely Wessex AHSN) in partnership with Health Education England. Join our Polypharmacy ALS to help build your confidence in, and understanding of, the complex issues surrounding stopping inappropriate medicines safely. Delegates need to attend all three sessions.

The ALS will also help Primary Care Networks (PCNs) deliver the Medicines Optimisation elements of the Directed Enhanced Services and Investment and Impact Fund contracts, and meet recommendation 18 of the National Overprescribing Review report.

This online interactive course is held over three half days (9:30 - 12pm):

Session 1: Wednesday 17 September: Polypharmacy – the scale, impact and challenges around stopping medicines safely. We will define inappropriate medicines and look at the patient perspective.

Session 2: Wednesday 1 October: What tools are available to help? We will explore shared decision making, the evidence and tools to help conduct high quality medication reviews.

Session 3: Wednesday 22 October: Workshop and facilitated discussions with consultant geriatricians to share experience of medication reviews and consolidate learning.

In order for you to get the most from these sessions, we try to ensure a balance of professions among attendees and will provide relevant, local polypharmacy data for you to review prior to attending. To achieve this, we ask that you include your practice/PCN unique code on registration and confirm how long you have been a prescriber.

Please note:

We review registrants to ensure you meet our delegate criteria prior to final confirmation of your place.

All participants will be expected to have access to a laptop witha microphone, camera and a quiet room in order to participate fully in the sessions.

Delegates are required to attend all three sessions (17 September, 1 & 22 October 2025, 9:30 - 12pm) and participate in an evaluation. We will confirm your place via email.

Delegates are only required to register once for all three sessions.

If you have a question about this event, please contact us at: medicines.optimisation@hiwessex.net

Wessex Polypharmacy Action Learning Set