It's #NationalAsthmaDay

Did you know, you can manage your asthma and help protect the environment at the same time? 🌳

☑️ Ask your health professional about a low carbon inhaler
☑️ Recycle your used inhaler at your local pharmacy ♻️

On World Asthma Day watch our animation aimed at improving inhaler prescribing, use and disposal in Wales.

#WorldAsthmaDay

Today is World Asthma Day and we’re highlighting two of our documents:
Adult Asthma Guidance: awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-opti…
and Paediatric Asthma Guide: awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-opti…

#WorldAsthmaDay

Our next Learning at Lunch session takes place on May 21st.
Topics include:
Working together to optimise antipsychotic use in dementia
Resources for optimising medicine use in care homes
Book your place here forms.office.com/pages/response…

Delighted to have a more formal agreement with Andy and the team at AWTTC to ensure optimal prescribing of medicines across NHS Wales

Join us for our next Patient and Public Interest Group (PAPIG ) meeting on 22nd May.
Talks will include:
Getting the label right – are you really allergic to penicillin?
Tackling antibiotic resistance.
Book your place here forms.office.com/pages/response…

We are delighted to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership 🏳️‍🌈 Medicines Value Unit which will strengthen our partnership and enhance access to medicines with the aim of improving value and patient outcomes.

It's not too late to sign up for the #MedTox24 course in Cardiff, spaces are filling quickly! Get in touch for more information.

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Moondance Cancer Awards!
The One Wales Medicines Process supporting Better Cancer Treatment has been nominated in the Working Together category. Looking forward to the awards night on June 13 DEPOT

Thanks for having us! Fantastic day and great connections made #ABPIConf24

Inspiring session at @ABPI conference with this all female line up Dr June Raine, CEO of MHRAgovuk Dr Sam Roberts CEO of NICE, Fiona Bride Director of Medicines, Value & Access NHS England & Hilary Evans, CEO of Alzheimer's Research UK
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Today we’re delighted to be at the @ABPI Conference in London.
It’s going to be a great day with interesting speakers come and see us on stand 18 and find out more about the work we do in making medicines safer for patients in Wales.
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We’re looking forward to attending the @ABPI conference tomorrow. Come and see us on Stand 18 and find out more about the work we do
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Our Senior Appraisal Pharmacist Sabrina Rind enjoyed teaching the third year students at Cardiff University School of Pharmacy yesterday.

The Back-up antibiotic prescribing: Good practice guide is currently in development, we welcome comments on the draft paper and its associated Equality and Health impact Assessment (EqHIA) form.
Send comments by May 3rd awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-opti…

AWTTC is very happy to announce that the latest five-year All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) Strategy, setting out its ambitions and goals for 2024 to 2029, has been launched and is now available for you to read awttc.nhs.wales/about-us1/our-…

We've published an updated All Wales Policy for the Administration, Recording, Review, Storage and Disposal of Medicines (MARRS). The policy outlines minimum standards of practice for healthcare staff across Wales.
Read more: awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-opti…

Today is #WorldKidneyDay

#Kidneys are essential to health; they remove toxins and excess water from your blood!

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We've published the All Wales protocol for the appropriate prescribing of antipsychotics for people living with dementia.
The document supports best practice in the initiation; monitoring; review; tapering and stopping of antipsychotics.
Read more awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-opti…

To find out more about the visit watch the videos awttc.nhs.wales/news-meetings-…