Physical Health Pharmacy Webinars

Course Overview
This webinar series is aimed at pharmacists and medical practictioners to help them meet the physical health needs of service users. It is being organised by the King’s Pharmacy Team with support from specialist pharmacists at King's College Hospital.
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  • Video content
  • Approx. 1 hour to complete
  • Completion certificate
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About this course
This webinar series is for clinical staff who prescribe or optimise medication for people with severe mental illness. This may include pharmacists, doctors and nurses, to help them meet the physical health needs of service users. On completion of the series, you should be able to confidently use local and national guidelines to support evidence-based management in a range of common co-morbidities. The webinars have been organised by the Mind and Body Team at King’s Health Partners, presented by the pharmacists at King's College Hospital and funded by the Maudsley Charity.
There are 12 webinars in this series, each with a video recording and case study:
  • Medicines information resources, including drug interaction and administration resources
  • Drug chart reviews and medicines optimisation techniques
  • Liver disease including acute liver injury, chronic liver disease and interpretation of liver test results
  • Anticoagulants, with a focus on atrial fibrillation
  • Renal medicine, including acute kidney injury (AKI), chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal replacement therapies (RRT)
  • Hypertension
  • Cardiovasular, with a focus on acute coronary syndorme
  • Diabetes management including monitoring of oral antidiabetics and insulin
  • Heart failure
  • COPD
  • Asthma
  • Bone health management including vitamin D and calcium supplementation

Course authors and designers

Karen Ang

Project Manager | Integrating our Mental and Physical Healthcare Systems (IMPHS) | King's Health Partners








Rina Patel

Principal Pharmacist | Acute and Emergency Medicine
Rina is the principal pharmacist for acute and emergency medicine for both the Denmark Hill and Princess Royal University Hospital sites at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Her extensive experience and expertise in this discipline has led to a collaborative partnership with the South London and Maudsley team.



Florin Ivan

Project Manager, Learning Hub | King's Health Partners