Empowering patient self-care improves health outcomes and reduces the burden of diseases. Improving health and self-care literacy is key to empowering pharmacy-based self-care. This is especially important when it comes to the management of minor ailments through pharmacy. Consisting of a series of five events focusing on common health issues, this new FIP digital programme aims to examine how pharmacists can be enabled to improve health and self-care literacy. Approaches for each of the five areas of minor ailments will be discussed including embedding health and self-care literacy into education and training, developing self-diagnosis and self-medication protocols, widening access to patient information, and improving referral strategies.

Tobacco use is a global health problem with 1.13 billion smokers and 8 million deaths annually, including 1.2 million from second-hand smoke. It is a burden on individuals, communities and economies, causing various diseases and preventable deaths. Tobacco is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes. At this event, FIP will launch a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of tobacco cessation services. This will be accompanied by a reference guide identifying the knowledge and skills pharmacists need to provide such services.

Moderator:
- Lars-Åke Söderlund, FIP Vice President International Pharmaceutical Federation - Sweden

Panellists:
- Dongbo Fu, Medical Officer for Tobacco Cessation World Health Organization - Switzerland
- Tan Ching Siang, Dean, School of Pharmacy KPJ Healthcare University College - Malaysia
- Darush Attar-Zadeh, Clinical Fellow Respiratory Pharmacist North West London Integrated Care Board, RightBreathe - United Kingdom (England)
- Inês Nunes da Cunha, FIP Practice Development and Transformation Projects Manager FIP - The Netherlands
- Dalia Bajis, Lead for provision and partnerships FIP - The Netherlands

This webinar will update members on the ECPG Career Development Toolkit and introduce the new structure and variety of content for the Curriculo PFP Programme.

Moderator:
- Amanda Cavness, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters - United States

Co-Moderator:
- Godsgift Iwendii, Pharmacy Council of Nigeria - Nigeria

Panellists:
- Karen Glen
- David Morrison

This 4th of 4 Digital Events on mentorship will follow the third event that focused on the responsibilities and behaviours of the organization and its leaders in facilitating effective mentorship, oversight of a successful mentoring programme, and imbuing a culture of mentorship. This Digital Event features organizational leaders of successful wide-scale mentoring programmes and includes FIP Executive Director, Catherine Duggan, to share her perspectives on mentoring and how might mentoring platforms take further shape in the Federation.

Moderator:
- Dr. Efi Mantzourani, Reader in Pharmaceutical Sciences - Wales

Co-Moderator:
- Shane Desselle, Associate Dean for Research and Professional Affairs Touro University California College of Pharmacy - USA

Panellists:
- Brittany Torres, Associate Pharmacotherapy Touro University California College of Pharmacy - USA
- Helen Chang, Head of Professional Development Royal Pharmaceutical Society - England
- Catherine Duggan, Executive Director International Federation of Pharmacy (FIP) - The Netherlands

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a prevalent and severe condition that progresses silently in most patients. As such, many patients are not diagnosed until the late stages of CKD, resulting in a greater risk of poor outcomes, such as end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis or transplant. Community pharmacists and their teams are ideally placed to raise CKD awareness, identify those at risk and be the driving force behind earlier detection and referral to primary care partners for screening, diagnosis and intervention. At this event, the “Chronic kidney disease - Toolkit Guide” to support pharmacists in providing a range of CKD pharmacy services will be presented.

Moderator:
- Lars-Åke Söderlund, FIP Vice President International Pharmaceutical Federation - Sweden

Panellists:
- Connie Marshall, Director of Expert Content IPG Health - Canada
- Alfonso Pereira Céspedes, Adjunct professor Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Costa Rica, and University of Granada Spain - Costa Rica
- Ronald Castelino, Associate Professor in Pharmacy University of Sydney - Australia

Emphasis is often placed on healthcare challenges facing providers and pharmacists that care for the adult and elderly patient populations – however, children are cared for in many of the same patient care settings: hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and community pharmacies. As compared to adults, children may be at greater risk of medication errors and potential adverse drug events due to individualized weight-based dosing, differences in compounded formulations and concentrations, inability of children to communicate adverse effects, and confusion between units of measure (e.g. milligrams versus milliliters). This session will provide “need to know” information about how to care for a paediatric patient throughout the care continuum (inpatient considerations, transitions between inpatient and outpatient care, outpatient considerations, and transitions from paediatric to adult care) as well as more advanced information regarding innovative approaches and technology implementation in paediatric pharmacy.

Moderator:
- Juliane Mayette, PharmD, BCPS Clinical Staff Pharmacist Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital - United States


Panellists:
- Lauren Kormelink, PharmD, BCACP, Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Pharmacist University of Kentucky HealthCare - United States of America
- Jorge Alberto Robledo, Biochemist, Pharmacist and PhD in Health Sciences, Director del Programa Interinstitucional de Prevención y Educación en Salud (PIPES) Bioquímico y Farmacéutico - Doctor en Ciencias de la Salud - Argentina
- Sherif Kamal, RPh, MSc, DHCM, Pharmacy Program Director Health Sciences Academy Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt - Egypt
- Dr Régis Vaillancourt, OMM, CD, B.Pharm, Pharm D, FCSHP, FFIP, FOPQ Director of Pharmacy/ Directeur de la Pharmacie
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Canada

The 16th Global Conference on Ageing is set against the backdrop of important international agendas that align and intersect with the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. The conference is focusing only on five themes – digital technologies, older women, maintaining and improving function, immunisation, and age-friendly environments which will be seen the lens of both the actions areas and enablers. 

The FIP Pharmacy Practice Research Special Interest Group (PPR SIG), in collaboration with University of Granada, is hosting an international event — “Pharmacy practice research summer meeting for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and supervisors” — on 3 and 4 July 2023 in Granada, Spain.

The main scope of the PPR SIG is to increase pharmacy practice contributions to global health by providing greater access to the latest high-quality international pharmacy practice research. During this meeting both starting-out and experienced researchers will be able to collaborate on major PPR themes.