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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