• What are the experiences, what have they achieved, what are the benefits and how did they implement it?
• The role of the on-site pharmacist – what could, and should it be?
• How can it work well?

• Experiences and learnings of managing 17 Residential Aged Care Facilities
• Auditing key take-aways
• Stewardship

• What currently exists with respect to standards and guidelines that are relevant to pharmacy services in aged care?
• Overview of Standard of practice in geriatric medicine for pharmacy services
• Overview of Guiding principles for medication management in residential aged care facilities
• Pharmacy and Aged Care Quality Standards

Medication administration is one of the most time-consuming activities undertaken in RACFs. In this presentation Professor Sluggett will discuss their implementation of a medication simplification service by pharmacists in RACFs using a 5-step validated tool which leads to more streamlined medication use and reduced burden for residents and providers. They found that implementing this service can lead to two thirds of residents taking their medications in a simpler way and it enables staff to shift a meaningful amount of time (~0.5 FTE/100 residents) away from medication rounds to other care activities to improve resident care and wellbeing.

• What do the findings from the Royal Commission mean? And how will it impact us?
• Both from aged care to hospital and back
• Respite care
• Communication, Medication Reviews and beyond

• The difference that an embedded Pharmacist made in practice
  • GP engagement
  • The wider-health team
  • Medication safety
  • Training for staff and elevating understanding of medications.
  • Client satisfaction
• Preparing for the change and jumping before funding committed or convincing a board that resident safety in medication management comes first!

• Planning medication needs and making changes towards end-of-life is more than deprescribing
  • Communication of medication changes to come and preparing for those changes
  • Finding the right dosage forms
  • Anticipating medication needs
  • Optimizing use to increase patient comfort and symptom control, including PRN and off label use
  • Medicines reconciliation across care settings

• What are Medication Advisory Committees? And what do they do?
• How can Medication Advisory Committees best support quality use of medication?
• How can pharmacists best support Medication Advisory Committees?