The overall aim of this course is to equip you with the knowledge and skills to support people with mental illness that you encounter in your practice. Following an introduction to mental health we will concentrate on: depression, anxiety disorders and insomnia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, older people and dementia and children and adolescents. We will conclude by looking at supporting people with mental illness across all care settings. By engaging fully and actively with the content you will feel more confident in providing advice to people with mental illness and be ready to deliver a high quality service.

Please note: this event is for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians participating in the Medicines optimisation in care homes training for pharmacy professionals pathway.

Case 1 - Mabel Jones an elderly woman whose main health conditions are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoporosis.

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This study day focuses on common mental health conditions seen in primary care. It will enable you to support patients with a mental health condition to optimise their medicines. The study day will combine principles of team-based learning (TBL) to facilitate networking and discussion whilst consolidating the underpinning knowledge about antidepressants, benzodiazepines and z-hypnotics. Teams will work through simple and more complex case studies to apply knowledge and share best practice.

This programme has been developed by University of East Anglia (UEA) who own the intellectual property and copyright.

Do you want to know about the new recommendations and information in the BNF? The aim of this event is to enable pre-registration pharmacists to identify how new recommendations and information in the BNF will affect clinical practice. During the event you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues in hospital and community practice on a series of case studies and to start to build your professional network.

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Please note: this event is for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians participating in the Medicines optimisation in care homes training for pharmacy professionals pathway.

Case 1 - Mabel Jones an elderly woman whose main health conditions are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoporosis.

#CPPEMabelJones

This event will equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence that you need to engage effectively in clinical medication review of your patients and their medicines. During the workshop you will apply evidence-based clinical medication review tools in a case study setting to make recommendations for rationalising medicines use. You will also have the opportunity to work with simulated patients and use your consultation skills to practise undertaking face-to-face clinical medication reviews.

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Do you want to know about the new recommendations and information in the BNF? The aim of this event is to enable pre-registration pharmacists to identify how new recommendations and information in the BNF will affect clinical practice. During the event you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues in hospital and community practice on a series of case studies and to start to build your professional network.

#CPPEprereg

Please note: this event is for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians participating in the Medicines optimisation in care homes training for pharmacy professionals pathway.

Case 5 - Virginie Dubois an elderly woman with Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, Addison’s disease and a history of multidrug resistant infection.

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