2022 Conference programme
Plenary Sessions
SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER
Chair’s welcome Nigel Gooding, Chair, NPPG
Opening address David Webb, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer – Strategic Overview, NHS England
Changes to the education and training of pharmacists – What does that mean for you? Dr Jane Brown, Pharmacy Dean (North), Health Education England
What’s new in children’s medicine Stephen Tomlin, Director of the Children’s Medicines Centre, Associate Chief Pharmacist – Research and Innovation, Great Ormond Street Hospital
An introduction to genomics for paediatric pharmacy Nicola Husain, Education & Training Lead, South East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance & Genomic Laboratory
Hub, NPPG, and Joanne Wragg, Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, Sheffield Children’s NHSFT / Chief Pharmacist North East and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Alliance
Managing burns in children – What pharmacists need to know Adam Sutherland, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER
Medicines safety Nigel Gooding, Steve Tomlin, Andy Fox
Talk by Steve Brown, Guest Speaker Steve Brown, Broadcaster, Paralympian, Public Speaker, Mentor and Coach
Short papers
Chair: Farrah Khan, Associate Professor Pharmacotherapeutics, London South Bank University
Impact of a paediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) pharmacist within a CF multidisciplinary clinic Sian Bentley, Consultant Pharmacist, Paediatric CSLD, Royal Brompton Hospital
Drug information for parents/carers taking babies home – Survey of healthcare professionals and parents/carers Neil Caldwell, Consultant Pharmacist, Children’s Services, Wirral University Teaching Hospital, Honorary Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores, University
Optimising prescribing of medicines to children by formulary interface pharmacists
Nanna Christiansen, Associate Chief Pharmacist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
NICU staff perspectives on the proposed introduction of standardised drug infusion concentrations Suzannah Hibberd, Lead Neonatal Pharmacist, Southampton Children’s Hospital
‘Favipiravir odyssey’ (Respiratory Syncytial Virus treatment and monitoring in Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) Katherine Stutz, Specialist Pharmacist in Paediatrics, Great North Children’s Hospital
Chair: Joanne Crook, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics Company, King’s College NHS Foundation Trust
Oral liquid medicine contribution to the carbon footprint of healthcare system: Scoping review Amin Houshian, Pre-registration Pharmacist, King’s College Hospital
Medicines optimisation across care boundaries: Experience from a tertiary paediatric asthma clinic Sukeshi Makhecha, Paediatric Respiratory Specialist Pharmacist, Royal Brompton and Evelina Hospitals
Embedding ‘pill’ swallowing training across a UK School of Pharmacy Dr Alice McCloskey, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Liverpool John Moores University
How to manage patients with a food allergy who need parenteral nutrition Stephen Morris, Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Roundtables
1A – Come and try a new placebo ODMT (Orodispersible Mini Tablet) Robert Holmes, Maryam Shah, Helen Wilmshurst, Proveca
1B – Discussion around EDI Farrah Khan, Associate Professor Pharmacotherapeutics, London South Bank University
2A – Independent prescribing for neonates and children Nabil Boulos, Specialist Pharmacist Paediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes, Southampton Children’s Hospital;
Ross Burrows, Lead Pharmacist Paediatric Endocrinology, Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales; Nigel Gooding, Consultant Pharmacist – Neonates & Paediatrics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke’s Hospital; Farrah Khan, Associate Professor Pharmacotherapeutics, London South Bank University; Andrew Lilley, Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital; Andrew Wignell, Divisional Lead Pharmacist (Family Health), Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner (Paediatric Critical Care), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nicola Wilson, PICU Pharmacist, Yorkhill Hospitals Glasgow
2B – The pharmacy challenges of implementing gene therapy medicines into practice Nanna Christiansen, Associate Chief Pharmacist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital; Abigail Mee, Associate Director of Pharmacy – Lead Pharmacist for Women’s and Children’s, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and Nicola Vasey, Lead Pharmacist, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
3A – Are you new to NPPG conference? Abigail Mee, Associate Director of Pharmacy – Lead Pharmacist for Women’s and Children’s, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
3B – Tablet Swallowing Project – An MDT approach Andreanna Kosmirak, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Paediatrics, Leeds Children’s Hospital, and Neoma Jacobs, Play Specialist, Ward L50 & Children’s Dialysis, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
SUNRISE SESSIONS
SS1 – Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) sub-group meeting Committee panel: Mohammed Abou Daya, Paediatric Critical Care Pharmacist, Barts Health NHS Trust; Sylvia George, Paediatric
Critical Care Pharmacist, Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust; Carol Ann Jones, Paediatric Critical Care Pharmacist & NIHR Pre-doctoral clinical academic fellow, Evelina London Children’s Hospital; Andrew Wignell, Divisional Lead Pharmacist (Family Health), Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner (Paediatric Critical Care), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
SS2 – RIG Asthma and sustainability with round table discussion
Andrew Lilley, Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and Sukeshi Makhecha, Paediatric Respiratory Specialist Pharmacist, Royal Brompton and Evelina Hospitals
SS3 – PANG subgroup committee meeting Emma Williams, Neonatal and Paediatric Gastroenterology Pharmacist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MASTERCLASSES (75 MINUTES’ IN LENGTH)
M1 – Tackling complex enquiries – Medicines information Dave Abbott, Highly Advanced Pharmacist – Medicines Advice, Leeds Medicines Advice, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
M2 – Extreme prematurity – New guidelines, risks and long-term outcomes Dr Hannah Shore, Consultant Neonatologist and Clinical Lead of the Neonatal service, Leeds Children’s Hospital
M3 – Rheumatic diseases in children – An overview Fan lek Leng, Senior Specialist Pharmacist/NIHR Clinical Academic Research Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Parallel sessions
1A – Mental health and anxiety in children Rachel Hogan, Clinical Lead CAMHS Pharmacist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Pharmacy Support Unit
1B – Emergency treatment of inherited metabolic diseases: An overview Thomas Wyllie, Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, Neonatology & Metabolic Disease, University Hospital of Wales
2A – Obesity and weight management Dr Caroline Steele, Paediatric endocrinologist, Leeds Children’s Hospital
2B – Management of AKI in children: From the ward to critical care – Delivered by Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) Special Interest Group Mohammed Abou Daya, Paediatric Critical Care Pharmacist, Barts Health NHS Trust; Callum Harper, Specialist Paediatric Pharmacist for Neurology and Neurosciences, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (MFT); Carol Ann Jones, Paediatric Critical Care Pharmacist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
3A – Liver – What’s new? Penny North-Lewis, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Paediatric Hepatology, Leeds Children’s Hospital
3B – Long term management of epilepsy Dr Archana Desurkar, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Ryegate Children’s Centre
4A – Effective multi-disciplinary team-based approach to managing childhood constipation Dr J.O. Menakaya, Consultant Paediatrician Lead, PURA QI Project on Childhood Constipation, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
4B – Introduction of standardised parental nutrition in a tertiary neonatal unit Dr Christopher Forster, Neonatal Consultant, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust