About this Event
Northern Ireland Unite - Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists (GHP) Symposium
Early Careers and Pathways in Ph*rm*cy Practice
In your early years of being a pharmacist there are so many questions, challenges and decisions to be addressed. At the Northern Ireland Unite GHP symposium we have a range of speakers who are leaders and opinion makers who can helps answer your questions, discuss the challenges and empower you to form your decisions.
We are serving a light soup and sandwich lunch from 13:30 and please stay for our hot buffet dinner at 18:00 designed especially for our delegates and speakers to network in an informal setting.
Draft Symposium Programme, (may be subject to change)
Doors open 1.30pm, light lunch of soup and sandwiches
o 2.00pm – Introduction and Welcome from Des Gourley, (Unite GHP council member for NI)
o 2.05pm – Keynote speech by Cathy Harrison, (Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Northern Ireland)
o 2.15pm - Professionalism starts with ‘U’ - Gavin Fergie, Lead Professional Officer, (Unite the union)
o 2.25pm - Established prescribing, training and development - Anticoagulant service (SHSCT)
o 2.35pm - Navigating prescribing challenges in specialist pharmacist roles - Sarah Pedlow (BHSCT)
o 2.50pm - Pathfinding new pharmacist roles in response to care model transformation - Connor McGee (SHSCT)
o 3.05pm - Overcoming prescribing challenges - Anna Fay, (GP federation pharmacist)
- Comfort break
o 3.25pm - You Choose between;
- What will new structured professional development mean for you? (NICPLD)
- Getting the job you want - interview/application skills (HSC)
o 4.30pm - Helping early career pharmacists thrive – Sue Wong (Unite - GHP)
o 4.40pm - Protected Time Campaign - Rob Connah (President Unite - GHP)
o 4.50pm - Closing remarks, Susan Fitzgerald (Unite)
o 5.00 pm - Panel Discussion
5.45pm Close and Hot fork buffet served
See you on the 23rd April
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Malone Hotel, 60 Malone Road, Belfast, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
