Deprescribing, waste and safety: where environmental sustainability meets hospice quality

Please join us for Hospice UK's Big Conversation webinar on 'Deprescribing, waste and safety: where environmental sustainability meets hospice quality' 

Tuesday 13th October 2026, 11:00 - 12:00

This one-hour webinar will bring together hospice colleagues from quality, patient safety, medicines management, pharmacy, medical, nursing and sustainability roles to explore how hospices can deliver safe, person-centred care while reducing avoidable medicines waste and environmental impact.

The session will use deprescribing as a practical lens for the conversation. It will combine an expert input, a hospice example and facilitated discussion to explore where sustainability and quality/safety aims align and what shared learning the sector could take forward.

Agenda: 

11:00 - Welcome and Introduction (Paul Fraser, Deputy Director of Programmes, Hospice UK)

11:05 - Opening Poll (Paul)

11:10 - Deprescribing in practice – tools and pharmacist perspective (Melinda Presland, Consultant Pharmacist in Palliative Care, Oxford University Hospitals)

11:25 - QI/audit case study – learning from Myton (Dr Louise Hills, Myton, SpR, Myton Hospice)

11:40 - Facilitated panel conversation/ Q + A (All)

11:55 - Wrap up (Julia Russell, Clinical Quality Advisor, Hospice UK)

12:00 - Close

The webinar will be recorded and shared, together with any slides, shortly after the event. 

 We look forward to seeing you. 

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