Grow Pharma launches new platform to help UK doctors learn about medical cannabis

Grow Pharma has launched a Journal Club to help inform UK doctors about the latest medical cannabis research.

The UK’s leading distributor of prescribed cannabis medicines, Grow Pharma, is now launching the latest in a string of initiatives aimed at educating doctors on cannabis medicines.

Each edition of the Journal Club will feature two recently published clinical papers relevant to the field of medical cannabis/cannabinoids from a variety of different disease areas including chronic pain, psychiatric disorders, neurology, and IBD, and will be released approximately every two weeks.

Those interested can sign up to Grow’s Journal Club here.

The first Journal Club will be sent round on 1st December featuring the articles named here.

The clinical papers will be emailed out as well as hosted on Grow’s Doctor Portal where healthcare professionals will be able to comment on the articles and share thoughts and ideas with each other. The Doctor Portal also features recordings of past webinar educational sessions from medical cannabis experts, as well as news articles, information on medicines and discussion forums for doctors.

Doctors can sign up to the Grow Doctor Portal here

“Educating doctors really is the key to increasing the use and acceptance of medical cannabis in the UK,” commented Grow Pharma CEO, Pierre Van Weperen.

“We have had significant success in supporting new doctors on their journey towards prescribing medical cannabis. Many doctors want to be involved in multiple educational sessions and hear from others who are already prescribing. We facilitate those interactions. We also help to connect them to existing specialist cannabis clinics or help them set up their own clinics.”

Grow Pharma CEO Pierre Van Weperen leads the team in educating healthcare professionals on cannabis medicines

There are now upwards of 15 clinics specialising in the prescription of cannabis medicines in the UK and on the Channel Islands.

Grow Pharma are proud to be the preferred distributor for more of these clinics than any other and is dedicated to supporting the clinics and doctors as they learn about medical cannabis, onboard new doctors and set themselves up as centres of expertise in the field. Grow puts its success down to having the broadest range of cannabis medicines available in the UK and their hard work and dedication to supporting doctors throughout the process.

The clinical papers featured in the Journal Club will be selected by Grow’s Medical Team for their high level of evidence and relevance to clinical areas where there is the most perceived potential to help patients.

In the UK, any specialist doctor can prescribe cannabis medicines within their field but not all doctors are aware of the potential benefits of cannabis medicines, even three years after they were rescheduled, due to a lack of formal education from clinical bodies. Grow Pharma believes that the Journal Club will help to bridge this gap in doctors’ knowledge.

There are now over 15 clinics specialising in prescribing cannabis medicines in the UK for patients to choose from.

“We all know how busy UK doctors are. It’s understandable they don’t always have the time to read about new treatments, especially one like medical cannabis, where there is so much to learn about the many ways it can help patients,” said Grow’s patient access lead Alex Fraser.

“The Journal Club is about making it easy and straightforward for Doctors to keep up-to-date with research and to continue learning about cannabis medicines, even if they are already prescribing them. We carefully select the studies and deliver them straight to their inbox in digestible chunks.

“If they have any more questions, they know that we’re on hand to answer them.”

Whilst the Doctor Portal is only accessible to healthcare professionals and the Journal Club is aimed at doctors, anyone can sign-up if they want to learn more about medical cannabis. The Journal Club is educational and non-promotional and solely designed to increase awareness of the latest research around this exciting field of medicine.

To sign up to Journal Club just click the link and fill in the short form here