Non-Medical Prescribing Update 20 March 2025

📅 Date: 20 March 2025 ⏰ Time: 13:00 – 17:00 📍 Format: Live Interactive Webinar

Medication Errors & Litigation Claims

• Understanding common prescribing errors and their causes
• High-risk medications: anticoagulants, insulin, opioids, and antibiotics
•  Legal & litigation risks: How medication errors impact clinical practice
• Real-world case studies: Lessons from prescribing errors in primary care

Prescribing Updates & Regulatory Changes

•  BNF & MHRA Safety Alerts – Key updates for 2025
• Latest NICE guidelines for prescribing (cardiovascular, antimicrobial stewardship, pain management)
• Controlled drug prescribing changes: Legal and ethical implications
• Practical case discussions: How to integrate new prescribing guidance

Auditing Prescribing Practices & Clinical Governance

• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Opioid prescribing
• Using audit results to improve prescribing decisions and minimise risk

Clinical Decision-Making & Polypharmacy

• Managing multi-morbidity & polypharmacy using STOPP/START criteria
• Deprescribing strategies: When and how to reduce medication burden safely
• High-risk drug interactions in elderly, renal, and liver-impaired patients
• Interactive case-based discussion: Practical prescribing scenarios

New Prescribing Rules for Weight-Loss Medications (Wegovy, Mounjaro) Speaker : Rajen Patel GPHC|

• Overview of weight-loss drugs: Wegovy (Semaglutide) and Mounjaro (Tirzepatide)
•  New GPhC regulations for online prescribing
• Common prescribing errors: Incorrect patient selection and dosing risks
• Best practice safeguards for prescribers:
• GPhC Online Guidance Update February 2025 – Guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance, including on the internet.

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) are responsible for regulating registered pharmacies and registered pharmacy professional. The guidance for providing pharmacy services at a distance, including online, has been updated in February 2025 to strengthen the safeguards that we expect registered pharmacies to have to make sure services are provided safely and effectively. The session will focus on the key changes to the guidance with emphasis on providing a weight-loss service at a distance. The session will be led by Rajan Patel who is a Regional Manager and Inspector for the GPhC.

 16:45 – 17:00 | Q&A & Action Planning Recap of key learning points Developing an individual prescribing improvement plan Resources for ongoing CPD & professional development (BNF, NICE, CPD platforms)

Certification  4 CPD Hours 

CPD Certificate of Attendance (meets the annual prescribing update requirement) Prescribing update webinar 2025 Annual prescribing update for healthcare professionals Medication errors and prescribing safetyNew NICE guidelines for prescribing 2025 BNF and MHRA updates 2025 Weight-loss drugs prescribing regulations (Wegovy,  Mounjaro) Online prescribing training for GPs and pharmacists Managing poly pharmacy and high-risk drugs Auditing prescribing practices for patient safety CPD prescribing course for nurses, pharmacists, and PAs