MedsAware Deprescribing Action Week

MedsAware Deprescribing Action Week raises awareness around polypharmacy and deprescribing.

 

In 2026, AdPha’s MedsAware: Deprescribing Action Week is asking are you MedsAware or misinformed?

Find out more about MedsAware 2026 here.

 

Webinars

Supporting your patients to be MedsAware: separating facts from fiction to assist deprescribing.

This webinar will cover the following learning objectives:

  • Define misinformation
  • Explain how health misinformation spreads and can influence patient behaviour
  • Critically evaluate the evidence behind common clinical misinformation scenarios, to support deprescribing
  • Identify opportunities for pharmacists to bridge the gap between misinformation and evidence-based deprescribing practice
  • Describe communication strategies to use when engaging with patients with held beliefs about their medicines, to support shared decision making in deprescribing.

Presenters:

  • Professor Sepehr Shakib, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Adelaide University, Adelaide, SA
  • Dr Sarah Goffin, Founder and Creative Director, Proof of Concept Creatives, Brisbane, Qld
  • Deirdre Criddle, Complex Care Coordinator Pharmacist, WA

Date: 18th March 2026

Start: 01:00 PM AEDT

End: 01:45 PM AEDT

Register here.

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