Whole Person Health - Thursday 19th June 2025

Panel Discussion: Tackling Overmedicalisation in Primary Care

19 Jun 2025
The Whittle

In 2021, the Government's National Overprescribing Review established the healthcare system's over reliance on medication and led to the College of Medicine launching the Beyond Pills Campaign. Three years on, the speakers will look at shifts in primary care, the increase in non-medical interventions such as social prescribing and an integrated approach to deprescribing.

 

Chairperson
Tony Avery OBE
Prof Tony Avery OBE, National Clinical Director for Prescribing, NHS England, a GP in Nottingham and Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Nottingham, UK
Speakers
Simon Opher
Dr Simon Opher, GP for 30 years and Labour MP for Stroud, UK
Ellen Fallows
Dr Ellen Fallows, GP & Vice President of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, UK
Mark Horowitz
Dr Mark Horowitz, Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry in North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), Visiting Lecturer in Psychopharmacology at King’s College London, and Trainee Psychiatrist, UK
Marion Steiner
Dr Marion Steiner, GP, Chair of Nature and Health Strategy Group of the West of England Nature Partnership & Board Member for NCIM, UK
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