A balancing act: managing multiple medications
Join us for an interactive webinar on managing multiple medications
This session will explore the critical challenges of polypharmacy in acute settings and demonstrate how RCP's recently launched acute care toolkit on polypharmacy supports safer, more effective medication management.
Speakers will share practical insights on implementing the toolkit in clinical practice, from education and training strategies to sustainable approaches and communication techniques. This online event offers healthcare professionals an opportunity to deepen their understanding of polypharmacy and learn how to embed the toolkit into everyday care to improve patient outcomes.
Tuesday 13 May at 12 noon - 1pm.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Oxford Health NHS Trust
Tessa is a GP, Her working week for over 20 years has been split between a clinical role as frontline GP, and therapeutics. Since leaving partnership she has developed an interest in frailty. She Chairs the suite of NICE common infection guidelines and has brought the primary care perspective to the NICE Quality Standards and Indicators Advisory Committees as a member. As medical adviser she works with colleagues nationally to support issues such as antimicrobial stewardship, anticoagulation, and polypharmacy. She currently works with AWTTC to provide therapeutic rapid update webinars. In 2004, she published the NO TEARS tool for medication review.
Lucy is a consultant geriatrician. She is passionate about high quality patient-centred care of older people. She enjoys meeting students and AHPs, and watching trainees learn what it is about geriatric medicine that is so irresistible.
Lucy trained at Cambridge, Barts and several London hospitals before moving to Somerset in 1997. She chaired her trust’s clinical ethics committee for 10 years and contributed to the Medicine for Older People syllabus for Bristol University Medical School.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Dr Laurence Gray trained in Wales and became a Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology in 2017. He has a special interest in adverse drug reactions and contributed to the recent All Wales guidance on penicillin de-labelling in secondary care.
Professor Tony Avery, OBE, is National Clinical Director for Prescribing for NHS England. He is also a GP in Nottingham and Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Nottingham.
He is passionate about ensuring the safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines and has worked in partnership with healthcare professionals and patients over 30 years to drive forward research and policy development in prescribing and patient safety.
He has led a number of major studies investigating the frequency, nature and causes of prescribing safety problems in the NHS. He has also developed effective methods for tackling hazardous prescribing, most notably the pharmacist-led, IT-based intervention called PINCER, which has now been rolled out nationally to general practices in England.
13 May 2025