Primary care pharmacy

Support for you and your team

We developed focal point programmes specifically for community pharmacy teams to develop their understanding and skills around a certain topic. You can use these topics with your PCT pharmacy colleagues in a learning community. Learning communities are a group of people who can learn using free focal point programmes at a time and place of their choice and can easily be set up on our website. 

focal point programmes

Learning communities page

Our learning portfolio has many programmes that will support you in areas such as regulation and patient support:

• BNF community e-update e-learning
• Helping others learn e-learning
• Patient-centered care open learning
• Patient group directions open learning
• Repeat dispensing focal point
• Responsible pharmacist e-learning
• Screening populations, monitoring people and examining patients open learning
• Travel health e-learning

Why not search the themes within our learning portfolio to see what other learning programmes can support you in your role?

Support for public health services

We have many programmes that support the delivery of public health services. View our public health leaflet (PDF) for more information.

Support for advanced services

Within our learning portfolio you will be able to access a number of programmes that will support medication review and can be found within that theme.

We also provide an online assessment which supports the advanced service of medicines use review. It has been developed by The University of Manchester with CPPE. This assessment is certificated by the University of Manchester.

Access the Medicines use review online assessment

Support for enhanced services

We offer variety of resources and materials to support enhanced services

CPPE local solutions has been designed to offer commissioners and providers of community pharmacy enhanced services access to a range of free learning materials to deliver local workshops. They have been developed where applicable within the Harmonisation of Accreditation Group (HAG) competencies and training framework (CaTF). 

Our topics include Emergency hormonal contraception and Weight management and some resources that link to generic skills or knowledge such as Communicating locally. For further information on how these resources can be used and a list of topics, go to CPPE local solutions page.

For some CPPE local solutions events, HAG recommends completion of a CPPE open learning porgramme and e-assessment as a prerequisite.

Many of our open learning programmes can be used to support learning for an enhanced service. They are designed as a self study programme and most can be downloaded as a PDF. Browse our open learning portfolio to see what is available. 

Our e-assessments are challenging and will assess both knowledge and skills used within practice. Many commissioners will recommend use of our e-assessments as sucessfull completion can be used as evidence of skills and knowledge for a particular enahanced service.

Go to our e-assessments portfolio

We have produced a document in collaboration with the NPA detailing learning programmes and resources to support pharmacy service development.

Download the Pharmacy Services Development document