Earlier this month the BPS Assessment team touched down in Melbourne for the 20th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. A huge thank you to ASCEPT and IUPHAR, for putting together such a brilliant congress and bringing the global pharmacology community together under one roof.
BPS CEO and BPSA Managing Director, Neha Issar-Brown, summed up the week for us in a LinkedIn post saying saying:
“BPS Assessment (BPSA) had an excellent time at #WCP2026, with several insightful meetings, networking and discussions engaging with long-standing, new and potential partners.
We topped it off by hosting a knowledge exchange session towards the end where UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japanese colleagues shared their reasons and experiences of using and adapting the BPSA platform for their respective national prescribing safety assessments.
BPS Assessment Team also updated audience on the new e-simulator function and many of the fantastic and free educational modules available on the BPSA website”
Meeting the wider prescribing community
One of the highlights of the week was meeting with prescribers and educators from across Australia and New Zealand at our ANZ User Group Meeting, catching up with existing partners and hearing first hand how the platform is being used to support prescribing training across the region.
We also spent time talking to the technical and program lead for Australia’s National Prescribing Curriculum (NPC) Dr. Ivan Bindoff and Ass. Prof. Bridin Murnion, discussing how prescribing education is evolving and where our work overlaps.
Highlights from the talks
Professor Simon Maxwell delivered the BPS Lecture as one of the keynote presentations. His session showcased just how much of an impact the Prescribing Safety Assessment has had on strengthening safe and effective prescribing across the UK, with some really compelling examples of how assessment translates into better patient care and stronger clinical competence in practice.
Alongside that, Peter Wright led a well received session at the Innovation Theatre, bringing together international colleagues including Simon Maxwell, Professor Shinichiro Ueda, Professor Sarah Hilmer, Professor Kellie Charles and Dr Paul Chin to talk through how the Prescribing Safety Assessment has been implemented across medical schools and postgraduate programmes in the UK and beyond. It was a great chance to dig into the practical side of large scale prescribing competency assessment and what’s working well in different corners of the world.
Thank you
Thanks to everyone who took the time to meet with us, take part in our sessions or stop by for a chat.
Thank you also to Simon Maxwell, Lynne Bollington, Sarah Hilmer, Kellie Charles, Shinichiro Ueda and Natalie Blanchard for supporting and collaborating with BPS Assessment and to Neha Issar-Brown, Peter Wright and Marcus Hughes for representing us throughout the conference.
We’re already looking forward to the next one!
