Best care for nursing home patients: interview with GP Dr Pipin Singh

In this episode, Dr Pipin Singh talks to MIMS Learning editor Pat Anderson about how to provide care for nursing home residents that meets their needs and enables them to have the best possible quality of life.

His practice’s approach makes best use of time and draws in the support of pharmacists and nursing home teams to plan and deliver care and to plan ahead so that frail, older residents are treated in accordance with their wishes.

As part of the episode, Dr Singh focuses on medication review, using a case study example to work through the issues faced by one elderly resident with multiple health problems and multiple prescribed medications. He outlines how medication review has affected this patient’s quality of life, and how providing continuity of care to patients in this situation is very professionally rewarding. 

This episode is supported by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, which has recently released an e-learning course entitled Managing Respiratory Diseases. 

You can access the website version of this podcast on MIMS Learning to make notes for your appraisal. MIMS Learning offers hundreds of hours of CPD for healthcare professionals, along with a handy CPD organiser.

Please note: this podcast is presented by medical editors and discusses educational content written or presented by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals on the MIMS Learning website and at live events.

Useful links

Unsafe swallow in a patient who lacks capacity: nursing home case study

Polypharmacy in a patient with dementia: nursing home case study

Multiple morbidity: nursing home case study

Recurrent falls in older people

Assessment of older people

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