2nd National Pharmacy Conference
*** last call for registrations
The 2016 conference programme boasts eight mainstream commissions. Commissions 1 to 4 will run parallel on Saturday, 22 October 2016, with Commissions 4 to 8 running parallel on Sunday, 23 October 2016. A rapporteur session will conclude the parallel commissions on both these days.
Delegates will be spoilt for choice in terms of which commission to attend. National and international speakers will address conference goers and participate in the rapporteur get-togethers at the end of the parallel sessions. The commissions and speakers will be introduced to delegates via social media and electronic communication over the next few weeks.
Registered delegates will ‘tee-off’ on Thursday, 20 October 2016 with a charity golf day that guarantees to be vibrant and energetic.
The conference gets underway on Friday, 21 October 2016, with the official opening, welcome and keynote address. Delegates will be treated to a cocktail party in the evening.
Proceedings start very early on Saturday, 22 October 2016, with a fun run/walk along the Durban Promenade at 05:30. After the walk/run and breakfast, delegates will knuckle down for an action-packed, information-filled day of conferencing.
Director-General of Health Precious Matsoso will address delegates before Dr Carmen Peña, President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) takes the floor to talk on ‘Pharmacy responding to global health challenges’. Thereafter, delegates will have the difficult task of choosing which of the parallel sessions offered by Commissions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to attend.
Dr Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training, will open proceedings on Sunday, 23 October 2016, with a topical talk on how the Department of Higher Education and Training can assist in addressing human resource requirements in pharmacy in South Africa in terms of funding, increasing capacity of current pharmacy schools, opening new schools, etc. After Dr Nzimande’s talk delegates will, once again, have to choose between Commission 5, 6, 7 or 8.
Remember to register online at www.sapcconference.za.org before the deadline on 31 August 2016.
Commission 1: The evolving role of the pharmacy profession
The morning session will be devoted to the evolution of pharmacy education, and speakers from Canada, United States of America, Australia and South Africa, all leaders in their fields, will address delegates on:
- The changing profile of pharmacy students
- Inter-professional education: benefits and challenges
- Producing well-rounded healthcare professionals through integrating science and practice
- Understanding learning styles and adapting teaching to meet the needs of the profession
The afternoon session will focus on the roles of different cadres in the profession. Erudite speakers from Ireland, the United Kingdom and South Africa will address delegates on:
- Changing role of tutors/preceptors
- Who is accountable for what? The role of the pharmacy owner and the responsible pharmacist in South Africa
- Unpacking the role of the pharmacy owner and superintendent pharmacist – the UK experience
Commission 2: Developing and enhancing models of care
The morning session will focus on improving patient outcomes:
- Potential contributions and challenges of clinical pharmacy in the private and public sectors
- Ensuring integration of pharmacy to patient care
- The occurrence and impact of adverse effects of medicines is under-estimated and under-reported
- Medicines optimisation through medicine use reviews
The afternoon session will deal with the impact of legislation and policy on the profession:
- Impact of pricing regulations on the viability of community, hospital and manufacturing pharmacies
- Does the current pricing structure encourage the rational use of medicines
- Designated service providers! What is the advantage
Commission 3: Innovation in Pharmacy with an emphasis on technology
In the morning, expert speakers from Zimbabwe, Australia and South Africa will address delegates on:
- Identifying the technology gaps in the practice of pharmacy
- E-prescribing and when it is to be implemented in SA
- Empowering patients through technology
- The potential role of social media as a patient education tool
The afternoon session will cover a range of innovative thought-provoking topics:
- The hospital pharmacist and the e-health revolution
- Automation in pharmacy together with the remote automated dispensing unit (RADU)
- Electronic health records (EHR): role, responsibility and accountability of healthcare practitioners
Commission 4: National Health Insurance (NHI), primary care and burden of disease
The morning session will focus on effective and efficient distribution of medicines:
- Innovative ways of delivery of medicines
- Stock outs: understanding the problem and finding solutions
- Medicines optimisation through medicine use reviews
- Drug supply management: what are the knowledge and training needs for the responsible pharmacist?
- Will a state owned pharmaceutical manufacturing company solve the shortage of medicines?
The afternoon session will have a targeted focus on the much deliberated NHI:
- National Health Insurance – the road travelled and future direction for pharmacy
- Does the current pricing structure encourage the rational use of medicines
- Accreditation of health facilities for NHI
- Reducing health inequity – distribution of pharmacies in South Africa
Before the rapporteur session, Stephan Moller (SA) will speak on ‘Advocacy for the profession – finding the pharmacy voice within a healthcare structure’.
Commission 5: Improving patient care through research
The morning session will cover competency-based frameworks:
- Competence standards for midlevel workers
- Competence standards for pharmacists
- Advanced competencies for pharmacists
The afternoon session will deal with innovation and legislation in pharmacy education and training. The following institutions will present:
- Council for Higher Education
- Quality Council for Training and Occupations
- Health and Welfare Sector Education Training Authority
Commission 6: Clinical practice and science
The morning session will be devoted to group practice and patient-centred care. The following topics will be covered:
- Nurses in pharmacy: best practices in inter-professional collaboration
- Pharmacy collaborating with complementary and alternative health professions, including traditional healers: challenges and opportunities
- Collaborative practice models with medical practitioners or dentists in a pharmacy: a new approach to primary healthcare
The afternoon session will focus on enhancing practice through continuing professional development (CPD) and expert speakers from United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and South Africa will address delegates on:
- Why CPD is important – it is not your grandmother’s library
- CPD implementation in UK: successes and pitfalls
- The value of measuring outcomes of CPD
- Building confidence and credibility in your practice: the Canadian experience
Commission 7: Workforce development
The morning session will deal with specialisation in pharmacy. The following topics will be covered by speakers from the USA and South Africa:
- Expanding the delivery of public health through pharmacy
- What is the value of the industrial pharmacist?
- Residency programmes: role in preregistration training in the USA
In the afternoon the focus will be on midlevel workers in pharmacy, with experts from USA, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa discussing:
- Pharmacy Technician – Zimbabwe experience
- Pharmacy Technician – Kenya experience
- Pharmacy Technician – USA experience
- Midlevel workers in pharmacy – progress made so far – SA experience
The afternoon session will cover supplementary/advanced scope of practice for pharmacists:
- Independent pharmacist prescriber: UK experience
- Authorised pharmacist prescriber in RSA
- Authorised nurse prescriber in RSA
Commission 8: Leadership, corporate governance, policy and legislation
The morning session will focus on increasing access and availability of medicines. Topics to be covered will include:
- Increasing access and availability of medicines through production of pharmacy personnel
- Role of the Department of Trade and Industry in increasing access and availability of medicines
- Role of the Department of Science and Technology in funding novel ways of producing medicines
The afternoon session will deal with ethics and ethical issues:
- Cost of malpractice to the healthcare profession
- Medication errors – a growing problem in community and hospital pharmacies
- Inspection of health facilities and outcomes to date
The afternoon session will conclude with dispensing to ensure patient safety:
- The occurrence and impact of adverse effects of medicines is under-estimated and under-reported
- Best-practice strategies to improve medication safety
- Community safety – green pharmacy environment
Before the rapporteur session, the concluding topic of the day will be ‘The race between law and technology: challenges and opportunities for pharmacy’.
The conference will conclude on Monday, 24 October 2016 with the inspirational USA speaker Timothy Maurice discussing ‘Life coaching cannot be business as usual’, and talks by Prof Sabiha Essack and Dr Yogan Pillay, Deputy Director-General of Health. Prof Essack will talk on ‘Antimicrobial stewardship: how far have we come and where are we going? – a South African perspective’, and Dr Pillay will discuss ‘Evaluating responses by pharmacy to national health outbreaks such as Ebola, Hepatitis, Malaria’.
If you are wondering if you will have any time to relax, don’t worry. Social events have been planned where you can mingle and socialise with the other delegates – apart from the golf day, fun run/walk and cocktail evening, delegates will also be treated to a beach party and the elite gala dinner being organised for the 2016 National Pioneer Pharmacy Awards.
More information on the commissions and speakers to follow soon!
Remember to register online at www.sapcconference.za.org before the deadline on 31 August 2016.
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