This session centres on making the best prescribing and dispensing recommendations through engaging, scenario-based discussions featuring well-known characters. Delegates will assess each character’s needs and propose suitable products or treatments, sharpening their clinical reasoning and communication skills. Midway through each case, the facilitator introduces a “dispensing curveball "a new twist that alters the patient’s context, challenging delegates to rethink and adapt their recommendations in real time.

Learning outcomes: 

• Practitioners will be able to explain how to recommend suitable solutions by using effective questioning techniques and lifestyle-based discussions to determine the best outcome for each patient 
• Practitioners will discuss how to adapt communication and clinical recommendations in response to new or changing patient information
• Practitioners will evaluate how to obtain and share relevant patient information collaboratively with colleagues and assess the consequences of incomplete information on patient care