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“Older people require special care and consideration from prescribers.”
NICE
“Older adults, people living with frailty and residents in care homes are among those at highest risk from problematic polypharmacy.”
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association, Polypharmacy Guidance, December 2025
“Rates of medication error are higher in older adults, in care home settings, primary and secondary care and during transfer of care, contributing to high rates of hospital admission among people over 75, especially those with frailty… patient safety is paramount when addressing older adults prescribing.”
Getting it Right First Time – Geriatric Medicine
This important national conference provides an essential update on non-medical prescribing for older adults, bringing together nurse prescribers, pharmacist prescribers and other non-medical prescribers working across acute, primary, community and care home settings.
Through national updates and extended interactive practical case studies, delegates will hear how to develop and maintain prescribing competence and how to strengthen effectiveness in post-qualification practice. The programme will explore how the updated Prescribing Competency Framework supports safe, person-centred non-medical prescribing for older adults, and how multidisciplinary prescribers can lead improvements in medicines optimisation, deprescribing and patient safety.
There will be a particular focus on polypharmacy, deprescribing and safer transitions of care, including how NMPs can work alongside geriatricians, GPs, community teams and care homes to identify problematic polypharmacy and reduce avoidable harm.
“Everyone has a responsibility to address problematic polypharmacy.”
Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 2024
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve non-medical prescribing for older adults
Learn from outstanding practice in ensuring patient safety in older adult prescribing
Reflect on pain management in the older adult and some of its many facets through case presentations
Improve medicines optimisation and structured medication review
Understand how to reduce inappropriate or problematic polypharmacy and implement safe deprescribing
Learn how to use the National Prescribing Competency Framework in everyday practice
Understand how to effectively develop, demonstrate and maintain continued competence in prescribing for older adults
Explore best practice in frailty, polypharmacy and prescribing across the system
Reflect on lessons from experts in non-medical prescribing with in-depth interactive sessions focusing on:
Pain in the older person
Medication management for falls prevention
Prescribing to avoid or reduce delirium
The role of the non-medical prescriber in care homes and community services
Work effectively with patients with co-morbidity and complex conditions
Develop your role and confidence as a non-medical prescriber leading safer medicines use in older people
Self-assess, reflect and expand your skills in prescribing practice whilst understanding your limits of practice and professional accountability
Support your CPD and professional development – this course provides 5 hours of training for CPD, subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
