Tackling polypharmacy in primary care - reflecting on learning from the IMPPP clinical trial

Polypharmacy (taking five or more medications) is a major challenge facing primary care today, with implications for patient safety, treatment burden, and NHS resources. Yet there is limited high-quality evidence to guide how best to manage it in everyday practice.

The Improving Medicines use in People with Polypharmacy in Primary Care (IMPPP) trial evaluated a complex, general practice-based intervention designed to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing and improve medicines use for people living with polypharmacy.

In this webinar, members of the IMPPP research team will share key findings from the trial, what worked and the challenges experienced, and how these lessons can inform future practice, service design and policy.

This webinar is for everyone involved in the care of people with polypharmacy in primary care, including patients, primary care practitioners, commissioners, policy makers and researchers.

Contributors:

• Dr Jenny Scott, Senior Lecturer & Pharmacist, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol (Chair)
• Dr Deborah McCahon, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol
• Professor Rupert Payne, Professor of Primary Care & Clinical Pharmacology, Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care, University of Exeter

We will send you a reminder with Zoom link a day ahead of the event. This event will be recorded and a link to the recording will be sent to everyone who has registered within a couple of weeks of the event.

For queries or to discuss access requirements, please contact: phc-info@bristol.ac.uk in the first instance. We are happy to call you if it's easier to discuss these over the phone.

About the webinar series: 'Innovation and impact in primary care research'.