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Whole Person Health Conference Programme - Thursday 29th June 2023

Integrative & Personalised Medicine

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Beyond Pills Campaign - One Year On

29 Jun 2023
The Whittle

This session will focus on how social prescribing can have a positive role alongside deprescribing in helping patients withdraw safely from dependence forming drugs, and explore how they could form an integrated approach to prevent and treat prescribed drug dependence.

Danny Kruger MP, Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence;  Professor Tony Avery, National Clinical Director for Prescribing;  Lelly Oboh Consultant Pharmacist, Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust Community Health Services; Dr Bogdan Chiva-Giurca Royal Surrey County Hospital and  founder NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme; Sean Jennings, Patient who has created pain cafes throughout Primary Care Networks in Cornwall; Gay Palmer, Social Prescriber Link Worker Team Lead, South Southwark Primary Care Network    

Speakers
Danny Kruger, MP for Devizes & Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence
Prof Tony Avery, National Clinical Director for Prescribing, NHS England and a GP in Nottingham and Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Nottingham
Lelly Oboh, Overprescribing Lead Pharmacist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Community Health Services
Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Royal Surrey County Hospital and College of Medicine Council member; founder NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme
Sean Jennings, Patient Advocate for Skills not Pills and Founder of the Pain Cafe's throughout Primary Care Networks in Cornwall
Gay Palmer, Social Prescriber Link Worker Team Lead, South Southwark Primary Care Network & Trustee for The National Academy for Social Prescribing

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