Training event for pharmacists and pharmacy teams: Pain Management – Self-Care for pharmacy – providing expert advice.

Training event for pharmacists and pharmacy teams: Pain Management – Self-Care for pharmacy – providing expert advice. Sept 20th, food from 6.45pm for 7.25pm start, Cooden Beach Hotel, Bexhill.

Open to all pharmacists and pharmacy teams in the East Sussex County Council area, this training event is designed to support pharmacy’s role in providing self-care advice and treatment to patients, by enhancing and developing pharmacy staff knowledge and expertise in specific areas and issues relating to self-care.

To attend this event please book your free tickets here

With GP practices referring more people to community pharmacies for treatment of minor conditions over the counter (OTC) and the move towards encouraging people to self-care/visit their community for OTC advice, this event is designed to support pharmacists and pharmacy teams to:

• Understand the background to NHS England’s self-care/OTC guidance and what the local CCG local plans are for implementation
• Find out about the local “signposting to pharmacies for minor conditions initiative” that is being rolled out across local GP practices”
• Update knowledge around Pain Management; chronic pain, the associated problems with overuse of opiates and OTC indications for pain and related red flags.

Expert speaker:  Dawn Harrington – Specialist in pain management based in General Practice in St Leonards on Sea.

Date: Thursday 20^th September 2018
Venue: Cooden Beach Hotel, Bexhill, TN39 4TT.  Buffet from 6.45pm evening starts 7.25pm, finish by 9.00pm.

 To attend this event please book your free tickets here

For more information including directions to the venue please see the flyer below:

HLP Self-Care Training Event (Sept 2018) – Agenda and Flyer FINAL (August 2018)