This important national conference provides an essential, practice-focused update for nurses prescribers working with older people across acute, primary, community and care home settings.

Prescribing for older adults is increasingly complex. Older people are more likely to be living with frailty, multimorbidity, cognitive impairment, falls risk, long-term pain, delirium risk and multiple medicines. NICE guidance on multimorbidity highlights the importance of reducing treatment burden and supporting shared decisions based on what matters most to the person, including their treatment goals, priorities and quality of life.

The day will examine how the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Competency Framework for All Prescribers, adopted by the NMC, supports safe, person-centred prescribing practice. The NMC expects nurse and midwife prescribers to practise in line with this framework, which underpins safe and effective prescribing practice for professionals on the NMC register. Through national updates and extended interactive case-based sessions, delegates will consider how to develop, demonstrate and maintain prescribing competence in post-qualification practice, including recognising the limits of scope of practice and knowing when to seek senior, specialist or multidisciplinary advice.

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