2026 Conference programme
Where title is preceded by * the slides are available by clicking on the presenter name (members only)
| Welcome and introduction Chloe Benn, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics, Barts Health NHS Trust and Chair of Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) |
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| * Keynote address: Delivering as the Royal College of Pharmacy – Supporting paediatric pharmacy professionals Tase Oputu, President, Royal College of Pharmacy |
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| * Updates and insights into children’s medicine today Steve Tomlin, Director of the Children’s Medicines Research and Innovation Centre – CMRIC, Associate Chief Pharmacist – Research and Innovation, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| ePoster showcase A selection of submitted abstracts |
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| * Speed dating the SIG way NPPG SIG’s Chairs |
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| Parallel sessions A – choose to attend one, 45 minutes in length | |
| A1 – Working across boundaries Helen Cooper, South East London Lead Pharmacist, Medicines Value and Paediatric Formulary Interface, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Sheatha Abumehdi, Specialist Pharmacist for Medicines Value & Paediatric Formulary Interface, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust |
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| A2 – What’s new in paediatric respiratory: Controlling asthma today and tomorrow Sukeshi Makecha, Lead Pharmacist – Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare, and Professor Louise Fleming, Professor of Practice in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust |
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| * A3 – Precision medicine in practice: Applied pharmacometrics and pharmacogenomics Dr Charlotte Barker, NIHR Advanced Fellow, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Nicola Husain, Paediatric Pharmacist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital |
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| * Martha’s Rule: How listening to families saves lives Dr Ronny Cheung, Consultant Paediatrician, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and Officer for Health Services, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
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| Short paper showcase
· * Paediatric dose limits in electronic prescribing systems · * Could pharmacy technicians pre-screen paediatric discharge prescriptions from a cardiology ward? · * Inequities in uptake of paediatric pharmacogenomic testing in ethnic minority populations · * Assessing trust compliance with national paediatric dispensing of oral medicines labelling recommendations · * A study of Paediatric Delirium diagnosis and the lived experience of parents |
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| Parallel sessions B – choose to attend one, 45 minutes in length | |
| * B1 – How to write a business case (and be successful) Paul Sanderson, Chief Pharmacist, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital |
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| B2 – What’s new in neonatology? Sian Gaze, Lead Pharmacist, London Neonatal ODN |
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| B3 – Weight management services in children Dr Pratik Shah, Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and Honorary Senior Lecturer, The Royal London Children’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London |
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| Saturday 10th October – Day two | |
| Registration, exhibition and ePoster viewing | |
| Building a community of practice for consultant credentialling Nicola Husain, Education & Training Lead, Neonatal & Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) |
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| Chair’s welcome Chloe Benn, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics, Barts Health NHS Trust and Chair of Neonatal & Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) |
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| * Keynote address: Joy in work – reconnecting with what matters Dr Jess Morgan, Educator |
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| * Vaccine hesitancy today: Tackling immunisation Professor Helen Bedford, Professor of Children’s Health, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health |
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| Short paper showcase
· * Specialist oncology pharmacy technician enhancing paediatric cancer care · * Care beyond the ward: Developing a paediatric ambulatory chemotherapy service · * Compassionate use Nivolumab in paediatric immunology: A pharmacist perspective · * Designing national neonatal intravenous medicine monographs: Nursing views on standard infusion presentation · * Advancing neonatal pharmacy through education, collaboration and national leadership |
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| Parallel sessions C – choose to attend one, 45 minutes in length | |
| C1 – From nebulisers to modulators: The changing landscape of paediatric cystic fibrosis Sian Bentley, Consultant Pharmacist, Paediatric Chronic Suppurative Lung Diseases, Royal Brompton Hospital, and Sarah Popple, Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner – Children’s Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester |
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| * C2 – From ideas to research: Making it happen Dr Mandy Wan, Consultant Pharmacist – Paediatric Research, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and Joanne Crook, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
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| C3 – Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome – When the classic nephrotic syndrome playbook doesn’t apply Peter Foxon, Specialist Pharmacist Paediatric Nephrology, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust |
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| C4 – Epilepsy prescribing – Reasons for non-adherence in children, medicines unavailability, prescribing support tools Sponsored by Desitin Professor David Wright, Professor of Health Services Research, University of Leicester |
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| ePoster showcase A selection of submitted abstracts |
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| * NPPG AGM Chloe Benn, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics, Barts Health NHS Trust, and Chair of Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) |
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| NPPG Research Grant 2026 * A national pharmacist-led strategy and implementation programme for tablet-swallowing support across hospital, community and home settings Dr Iek Leng Cheng, Principal Pharmacist – Immunology and Immunotherapies, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| NPPG short paper, ePoster and innovation awards 2026 | |
| Parallel sessions D – choose to attend one, 45 minutes in length | |
| D1 – Can a pharmacy technician counsel? Rebecca Le Maistre, Children’s Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, Northampton General Hospital, and Agnieszka Sadowska-Koszela, Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician, Evelina London Children’s Hospital |
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| D2 – Ask the expert: Managing atopic dermatitis in adolescents Sponsored by Galderma Dr Alpa Kanji, Consultant Dermatologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust |
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| D3 – From innovation to practice: The role of paediatric pharmacy in the implementation of gene therapies/ATMPs Divesh Pattni, Senior Specialist Pharmacist for Neurosciences, and Kalindi Rajani, Senior Specialist Pharmacist for Rheumatology and Dermatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| * D4 – Foundation pharmacy training – how to best support your new recruits Satvinder Mahal, Lead Pharmacist, Clinical Services, Milly Heys, Rotational Pharmacist, and Daisy Jones, Rotational Pharmacist, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| Parallel sessions E – choose to attend one, 45 minutes in length | |
| E1 – Getting the conversation right: Communicating about medicines with children, young people and families Ashifa Trivedi, Senior Pharmacist – Paediatrics, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Vice-Chair of Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) and Dr Iek Leng Cheng, Principal Pharmacist – Immunology and Immunotherapies, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| E2 – How AI can support and enhance clinical roles Maaike Kusters, Consultant Paediatric Immunology, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| E3 – The evolving treatment landscape in inherited metabolic diseases Dr Preeya Rehsi, Paediatric Metabolic Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital |