Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast 17. Caring about medicines in care homes with Jonathan and Sundus: Medicines safety issues
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, continues the series of podcasts called 'Caring about medicines in Care Homes with Jonathan and Sundus'. Here, Jonathan talks to Sundus Jawad who works for NHS Frimley, and has over 25 years' experience working closely with GP practices, care homes and other providers.
Sundus was recently elected Chair of the National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty and is a NICE Medicines and Prescribing Associate. Her professional and research interests focus on medicine optimisation in care homes, frailty, medication review, polypharmacy, and medication safety. Currently, she is in her fellowship year of the NIHR SPCR Primary Care Clinician Career Progression programme at the University of Oxford.
In this episode, Jonathan and Sundus discuss some of medicines safety issues she has come across in her career and how care home settings produce particular challenges. She shares some stories that have stuck with her - some of them will make your eyes water! All in all, this emphasises the need for good training and support for staff working in care settings, and how pharmacy professionals can help with this.
PrescQIPP resources mentioned in this episode:
Other resources mentioned in this episode:
- National Pharmacy Care Home Faculty in partnership with PCPA
- Pharmaceutical Journal - How we reduced anticholinergic prescribing by 52%
- NICE Guideline on Managing medicines in care homes
- Care Quality Commission Medicines information for adult social care services
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