Pharmacy Professionals Group

Community pharmacy is one of the most accessible parts of the health service, providing access to a qualified healthcare professional without an appointment.

Older people in general are more susceptible to medicine-related harm and for those with sensory impairment, the risk of iatrogenic disease is even greater.

I am part of a Surgery Team that looks after the residents. The other team members are the GP Lead and the Frailty Nurse.

Care Home Pharmacists carry out important work and aim to move the dial towards the delivery of personalised, “care-home centred” care, which works better for residents and the people who support t

In this evolving landscape of healthcare, the role of an Integrated Care Pharmacist has become increasingly important.

Working in hospital provides the unique opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team and fully embrace the complexity of older people medicine.

Our research, published in Age and Ageing, reports which outcomes are most important to measure in hospital deprescribing trials with older people who are under the care of a geriatrician.

Long-term conditions are diseases that cannot be cured, just controlled with medications.

Our new research published in Age and Ageing has established that most people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers are willing to have one of their medications de