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Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference 2023

This year's theme is 
Partnerships in Healthcare: Advancing Sustainable Medicines Optimisation

Monday 17 April - Tuesday 18 April 2023

Hosted by The University of Bradford, 
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP

The deadline for abstracts has now passed and we are no longer accepting submissions.

About the conference

Pharmacy has been an integral part of the NHS to deliver the medicine optimisation in both primary and secondary care. As new services and patient pathways are being developed and delivered, the role of pharmacy team is expanding to enable and support patients to manage their own health whilst remaining in their own homes where possible.

Although medication is the most common health intervention, medication-related harm constitutes the greatest proportion of the total preventable harm in healthcare. The World Health Organization (WHO) patient safety challenge launched in 2017 aimed to reduce harm from medicines by 50%, globally in the next five years, and medication without harm theme has been selected for World Patient Safety Day 2022.

The reduction and prevention of the medication-related harm can only be achieved by working within and across complex adaptive systems with our healthcare professional teams and putting patients and their carers at the heart of our services. Furthermore, sustainable medicine optimisation is even more important as we encounter limited healthcare resources and challenges in the healthcare system.

In this 29th HSRPP Conference, we welcome research addressing delivery of sustainable medicine optimisation with the focus around the four principles of Medicines Optimisation and additional strand focusing on sustainable solutions:

  1. Aim to understand the patient’s experience
  2. Evidence based choice of medicines
  3. Ensure medicines use is as safe as possible
  4. Make medicines optimisation part of routine practice
  5. Sustainable healthcare solutions for modern age

Following the success of the online 2021 and 2022 conferences, we will return to an in-person conference. We are very excited about the host of fantastic speakers and workshops we have planned for HSRPP 2023. The programme will include inspiring keynote speakers, excellent research oral and poster presentations, and developmental workshops focusing on the conference theme. We will also run a Ted Talk panel debating what sustainability is in healthcare, including pharmacy, and how it will look in the future. Support for conference attendees will also be a focal element with the integration of wellbeing activities into the conference schedule.

Find out more about the team of organisers.

Keynote speakers

Professor John Wright

Bradford Institute for Health Research

A profile picture of Professor John Wright, keynote speaker at the HSRPP23 conference

John Wright is a doctor and epidemiologist with a background in hospital medicine and public health in the UK and in Africa. He established and leads the Bradford Institute for Health Research and Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, working to speed up translation of medical research into practice and policy. He is the Director of Research for the City of Bradford and Director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration. He is Visiting Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Universities of York, Leeds and Bradford and has authored over 500 papers and three textbooks and been awarded over £150 million in research award funding, £50 million as chief investigator

In 2007 he set up the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort study which is following the lives of over 13,000 families as their children grow up. Evidence from BiB studies has informed local, national international policies and led to improvements in clinical practice and public health as well as a successful City of Culture award. In 2016 he set up Born in Bradford’s Better Start – the world’s first experimental birth cohort - to test new approaches to providing the best support in the crucial period of early life. In 2019 he established ActEarly to develop a whole systems City Collaboratory approach to improving the health and life chances of children from deprived communities in London and Yorkshire.

He has worked to develop sustainable public health programmes in Africa for 30 years including setting up and running an Ebola Treatment Centre for Doctors of the World in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic. He was the research and scientific lead for Clinical and District Gold command during the COVID19 pandemic and set up the COVID19 Scientific Advisory group (CSAG). He has reported for the BBC on programmes covering Born in Bradford, Ebola and most recently The NHS Frontline podcast.

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Bradford Institute for Health Research

Professor David Alldred

University of Leeds

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David Alldred worked as a clinical pharmacist in secondary care for five years before joining the University of Leeds as a research clinical pharmacist conducting a randomised controlled trial of pharmacist-led medication review for care home residents; this research formed the basis of his PhD. Following this, Dave was Lecturer in Pharmacy teaching pharmacology, therapeutics, pharmacy practice, evidence-based medicine, patient safety and medicines partnership.

He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at Bradford School of Pharmacy in 2013, and in 2015 was awarded the Pharmacy Practice UK Research Award and became a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Dave was appointed as Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Leeds in 2015 and Professor of Medicines Use and Safety in 2017. He leads the Medicines Optimisation research theme for the School of Healthcare and is also the Deputy Lead for the Safe Use of Medicines theme in the Patient Safety Translational Centre.

His research focuses on improving the use of medicines, particularly for frail, older people including those living in care homes. Dave managed the Care Homes' Use of Medicines study (CHUMS), a UK Department of Health funded national study of medication errors in care homes, which has had a significant on practice and policy. He was a member of the Guideline Development Group for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Medicines Management in Care Homes Good Practice Guidance. He leads work streams on two NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research - CHIPPS (testing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of pharmacist prescribing in care homes) and ISCOMAT (improving the experiences and outcomes for heart failure patients post-discharge through best use of medicines). David have recently been working with NHS England to implement a national Medicines Optimisation for Care Homes scheme.

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University of Leeds

Professor Bryony Dean Franklin

Director of the Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality

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Professor Bryony Dean Franklin BPharm BA MSc PhD FRPharmS FFRPS

Professor Bryony Dean Franklin is a hospital pharmacist and Director of the Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality (CMSSQ), a joint research unit between Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and UCL School of Pharmacy, where Bryony is Professor of Medication Safety.  She is a theme lead for both the NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London.

Bryony has been involved with patient safety research for more than 25 years; she has published widely on medication safety, the evaluation of various technologies designed to reduce errors, and the patient’s role in patient safety. Her current post combines research, quality improvement, education and training, and hospital pharmacy practice.  Bryony is Co-Editor-in-Chief for the journal BMJ Quality and Safety. She is also co-editor of the textbook “Safety in Medication Use” and co-author of “Going into Hospital?  A guide for patients, carers and families”, a book aimed at the general public. In addition to her paid work, she is a Church of England parish priest. 

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Director of the Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality

Panel discussion: Sustainable solutions for a modern age

Professor Amir Sharif

Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bradford

Professor Amir Sharif

Amir M. Sharif is the Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences and Professor of Circular Economy. Starting his academic career as a researcher within the field of artificial intelligence, Amir rapidly developed his research interests to apply his knowledge to addressing complex societal challenges in the areas of food security, circular economy, healthcare, operations / supply chain management, decision-making and humanitarian logistics. His specific area of interest is in the application of systems thinking, causal and cognitive models to explore human decision-making behaviours in complex environments

Professor Amir Sharif

Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bradford

Dr Amy Booth

University of Oxford

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Amy Booth is a medical doctor and PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. Her interest in sustainable health care developed when she was working during the pandemic and noticed how environmentally polluting health care provision could be. She became particularly concerned by the significant contribution of pharmaceuticals to the NHS's carbon footprint and her research looks at how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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University of Oxford

Peter Morgan

NHS England

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Peter is Medicines Net Zero Assistant Director for NHS England. The Medicines Net Zero team are working to reduce the environmental impact of the medicines used across the NHS in England. The team forms part of the Greener NHS programme, based within the Medicines Policy and Analysis Unit and combining environmental policy with medicines usage and supply. As a registered pharmacist, Peter previously worked in secondary care and primarily in aseptic services and clinical nutrition. He most recently led the aseptic service at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as associate chief pharmacist, where he also led the equality, diversity and inclusion and sustainability work for the department. Peter undertook the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer's Clinical Fellowship scheme in 2018/19, where he formed the syllabus for the community pharmacy consultation service course and acted as a subject matter expert for a level 4 Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response incident. Peter also cofounded Pharmacy Declares, a group of climate conscious pharmacy professionals based in the United Kingdom.

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NHS England

Costas Vasiliou

Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist, Medicines Safety Officer

A profile picture of Costas Vasiliou, Medicines Safety Officer

Costas is a Pharmacist in the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership Medicines Optimisation Team. Within my role I chair the West Yorkshire (WY) Pharmacy Network for Sustainability and the Environment. A network within WY pharmacy which brings together colleagues from a variety of organisations, sectors and roles who wish to work together on reducing the environmental impact of pharmacy, medicines, and other associated products. I continue to work to embed sustainability into WY pharmacy to improve both the immediate and long-term health of our population.

A profile picture of Costas Vasiliou, Medicines Safety Officer

Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist, Medicines Safety Officer

See the full details of our keynote speeches and panel discussion:

Registration

Follow this link to book your place at HSRPP 2023. You can find details of the cost of registration below. Payments are by credit or debit card only - please email hsrpp@northernnetworking.co.uk or call +44(0)1355 244966 if you require an alternative payment method.

Discounted registration

A discount is available for early bird registration up to and including 28 February 2023 (date extended).

We want to encourage students, people who are unwaged and researchers from least developed or low to middle income countries to attend HSRPP 2023. An additional discount is therefore available for these groups. A list of eligible least developed or low to middle income countries is available via this link.

Bursaries

We are aware that attendance at conferences can be financially challenging. We have a limited number of bursaries to support conference attendance for those working in community pharmacy. If you wish to submit an expression of interest for this please contact hsrpp2023@bradford.ac.uk. Please do this prior to registering for the conference.

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Registration costs

Registration type Early bird price up to 28 February 2023 Price from 1 March 2023 Conference dinner Monday 17 April
Unwaged, UG/PG students (with no full-time income) and delegates from least developed or low to middle income countries £180 £220 £35.00
Employed £240 £300 £48.00

Find out more and book your place.

Please note: Conference oral and guest speaker presentations may be recorded (audio and/or video). Attendees should be aware of this and by attending you consent to this taking place. Presentations which are recorded will be available to all conference attendees for a limited period of time via a dedicated link on the conference website, as soon as possible after the conference finishes.

Conference sponsors

Imaan Healthcare

Imaan Healthcare is a community pharmacy group comprising over 40 pharmacies. We have a genuine passion for training, education, research and innovation. This has led to us becoming the leading providers of HEE-commissioned cross-sector placements in the country, with our trainee pharmacists spending six months in community and six months in general practice. In 2023 we will also have trainees working in the prison sector and hope to also announce a community / academia split programme.
Imaan Healthcare has close links to all its local HEIs and understands the importance of collaboration between educators and training providers, for both undergraduate and trainee pharmacist development. As a result, we have developed a keen interest in differential attainment, its causes and how we can collectively address them. This has included supervising MPharm dissertations around this topic. We have also delivered a cultural competence awareness session to the GPhC inspectorate, it’s an area we are very passionate about.

Imaan Healthcare was also one of the leading providers during the Covid-19 vaccination programme, administering over half a million doses of the vaccine. We trained MPharm students and trainee pharmacists to administer vaccines, and they played a magnificent role in this operation!

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Luto

Founded in 2004, Luto (Leeds University Testing Organisation) has a team of world-leading experts creating clear health information – for patients and healthcare practitioners. Luto’s mission is to write and design great digital and traditional health communications, and then test them with real people to make sure the information meets their needs. Such healthcare information, whether on screen or paper, is critical to the success of health services in Europe, the US and beyond. Increasing complexity and costs mean that patients themselves play a central role in ensuring safe, effective and appropriate treatment. They cannot play this role without clear, usable and accessible information.

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Find out more

Get in touch with us for more information, there's also details of the organisers on the HSRPP23 team page.