2020 National Conference – Programme

Shaping The Future: Overcoming The Challenges To Seize The Opportunities
Part One

10:15AM – 12:20PM

The morning session on day one of the main PDA National Conference will feature a number of key topics affecting pharmacists today. Catch up on the work of the PDA and some key lessons learned from PDA’s casework. Find out how the profession in Norway almost went on strike and learn about the experiences of PDA reps across the UK.

Risk Management Toolkit For GP Practice / Primary Care Pharmacists

9:00AM – 12:20PM

This morning session, supported by Morph will help GP practice based and primary care clinical pharmacists develop their practice skills.

• Competency statements to define your role in the practice
• Risk assessment tools for supporting safe practice
• The Morph / PDA Competency triangle for defining how you review patients and solve clinical problems
• Clinical supervision - a practical session
• Root cause analysis - learning when things go wrong

Student Leadership Workshop

1PM – 4:50PM

This session will be a mixture of theory and practice which will allow students to build on their own experience of leadership, either as practitioners or aspiring leaders. Students will be supported in creating their own ideas about how they can develop their leadership skills and practice.

Leadership Session for PDA Student Members and Reps - from the PDA Leadership Development Programme for Student Representatives

• Introduction to the PDA – Paul Day, Director, PDA
• What can you expect from Your Pre-Reg Year? - Indy Dehele, Lecturer, Birmingham University School of Pharmacy
  An engaging presentation session on the key timescales and elements of your pre-reg year and how you can maximise the potential of your pre-reg experience.
• Developing Your Leadership Practice Caroline Holmes - Co-Founder R.E.D. Learning Coop (Research, Education and Development for Social Change)
  A two-hour interactive session will introduce student members and reps to some leadership theory and key leadership skills.
  We will cover the following three themes:
  - Exploring what students consider to be effective leadership skills and characteristics
  - Analysing some key leadership theories and styles
  - Identifying areas of personal leadership practice for development
  This session will be a mixture of theory and practice which will allow students to build on their own experience of leadership, either as practitioners or aspiring leaders. Students will be supported in developing their own ideas about how they can develop their leadership skills and practice.
• Plenary: Exploring opportunities to get involved - Collette Bradford, Head of Organising & Engagement, PDA
  PDA Leadership Development Programme for Student Representatives

Shaping The Future: Overcoming The Challenges To Seize The Opportunities
Part Two

1PM – 5:00PM

In the afternoon we will look at community pharmacy frameworks across the UK and visionary leadership in pharmacy. We will then focus on transforming the work of pharmacists. In these sessions we will learn from critical incidents and look at how safer practice can be developed and supported.

Meeting Of The National Association Of Women Pharmacists (NAWP)

5PM – 6:15PM

The National Association of Women Pharmacists was founded in 1905 and relaunched in January 2020 as a network within the PDA. Although the pharmacy profession is now two thirds women, inequality remains and in this session delegates will hear from a leading national expert on inequality at work.

In the 50th year since the Equal Pay Act became law, Dr Wanda Wyporska, FRSA, Executive Director of the Equality Trust will be talking to pharmacists about inequality at work: What it means for pharmacists and what you can do about it.

Shaping The Future: Overcoming The Challenges To Seize The Opportunities
Part Three

10:00AM – 12:45PM

In this morning session we will round up the developments of day one as well as covering delivering diversity and inclusion, the pharmacy apprenticeship proposal and tools to reduce stress for pharmacists, pre-regs and pharmacy students.

Locum Seminar

10:45AM – 12:45PM

Locums are a critical population within the profession and as self-employed people have specific challenges. This half day seminar aimed specifically at Locums will provide informative sessions from experts on issues which matter.

Shaping The Future: Overcoming The Challenges To Seize The Opportunities
Part Four

1:30PM – 3:40PM

In the afternoon we look at the hurdles that we still need to overcome and explore the tactical proposals being made by the PDA to ensure that we develop practice in a way that provides benefits to patients, the taxpayer, the NHS, and ultimately to professionally fulfilling careers for pharmacists. In this time, we will cover Supervision, hear from the Chief Exec and Registrar of the GPhC and take your questions to some of the leaders of the profession.