If you work through all of the NPCi content within this topic we feel you will achieve the following learning objectives. If you would like to print out this information for inclusion in your CPD file a PDF version is available below.

Learning Objectives:
Working through this NPCi topic will enable you to:

• Understand what is meant by ‘multidisciplinary’
• Describe how the drivers for change in medicines management apply to multidisciplinary teams
• Identify the barriers to multidisciplinary teamworking
• Suggest potential solutions to those barriers
• Define how communication between multidisciplinary team-members can be supported
• Describe how multidisciplinary medicines management teams can be motivated

Impact Assessment:
Applying the learning from this NPCi topic will help you to support the development of multidisciplinary teams and/or re-evaluate the teams you are involved in, resulting in:

• An opportunity for you to improve patient care by supporting the development of multidisciplinary teams you are part of, or working with
• Being able to address any ‘missing disciplines’ in the teams you are involved in
• The likelihood of an increased sense of involvement in medicines management activity from multidisciplinary professions
• Being able to describe the benefits of the medicines management work you are undertaking to a wide range of professions – thereby increasing the likelihood of their support

Knowledge Skills Framework (KSF) Links:
This NPCi topic links to the following dimensions from the NHS KSF and could help to meet personal learning objectives identified in personal development plans

Core KSF Dimensions:

• 1 - Communication
• 2 - Personal & People Development
• 4 - Service Improvement
• 5 - Quality
• 6 - Equality & Diversity

General:

• G6 - People Management
• G7 - Capacity & Capability