Fully funded programme open to pharmacy technicians working in all areas of practice. Designed to help you in preparing for the future of pharmacy, you learn at your own pace with individual education supervisor support.
PQS forms part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. We offer learning and assessments to support you in achieving criteria relating to the medicines optimisation and patient safety domains in the 2025-26 version of the scheme.
Are you on your way to becoming an inspiring and effective pharmacy leader? Want to bridge the gap between foundation and advanced practice? If you answered yes to both, this is the programme for you.
Are you a pharmacist or pharmacy technician employed as part of the primary care network Direct Enhanced Service additional role reimbursement scheme? Join our pathway.
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Whether you are prescribing independently or supplying via a Patient Group Direction, refine your consultation skills to deliver safe, person-centred care in this important area of practice with our new interactive programme.
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Access up to date resources to support you to deliver the NHS PCS in line with the new service specification.
Programmes, workshops and assessments booked in the last week
We are here to help you fulfil your potential and develop your career, whether you are just starting out, returning after a break, looking to specialise or wanting to gain professional recognition.
ExploreOur learning and assessment will support you in keeping your knowledge and skills up to date in order to deliver high-quality pharmacy services. We can help you to equip yourself with the tools to be service-ready and support the medicines optimisation and public health agendas.
ExploreThis event is only for pharmacists who are taking part in the RPS advanced credentialing support programme.
The aim of this second evidence review online session is to support candidates to build their RPS advanced credentialing portfolio. There are two evidence review sessions that form part of the programme. Evidence review sessions will contain elements of group coaching and peer coaching.
This second session will include discussing feedback provided from education supervisors on two Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) and the domain narrative with your peers.
This evidence review session will run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Pre-work
All candidates must complete the pre-workshop activities as outlined on Canvas:
This must be completed at least one week before the workshop. One of the education supervisor team will review your evidence before the session.
All pre-work must be completed for this workshop or you will not be permitted to attend.
17 November 2025 at 19:00
Evidence review session 2 (RPS advanced credentialing support programme)Zoom Room (Hazel), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PH
Lisa Drinkwater and Faiza Ali
This event is only for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are taking part in one of the primary care extended education pathways.
The overall aim of this programme is to raise your awareness of the challenges faced by people with a learning disability in using medicines, especially those with long-term conditions or taking multiple medicines. This will enable you to support people with a learning disability to optimise their medicines, health and wellbeing. It will also help you ensure that people with a learning disability have a review of psychotropic medicines and, if appropriate, a gradual reduction and withdrawal of medicines.
17 November 2025 at 13:30
Learning disabilities - medicines optimisation support (Primary care pathways)Zoom Room (Cherry), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PC
Sarah Hounsell and Catherine Lee
The aim of this learning programme is to update your clinical knowledge of Lewy Body Dementia to enable you to optimise the medicines of people living with this condition. It builds on other learning we have available, which can be found on our Dementia learning gateway.
After you select Choose an event, please be aware that workshop listings which require keycodes to access are for pharmacy professionals taking part in the Primary care pharmacy education pathway, while workshops that do not require a keycode are for all other pharmacy professionals who have identified this topic as a learning need.
17 November 2025 at 09:30
Lewy Body DementiaZoom Room (Ash), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PA
Janita Patel and Emma Bocan-White
The aim of this learning programme is to update your clinical knowledge of Lewy Body Dementia to enable you to optimise the medicines of people living with this condition. It builds on other learning we have available, which can be found on our Dementia learning gateway.
After you select Choose an event, please be aware that workshop listings which require keycodes to access are for pharmacy professionals taking part in the Primary care pharmacy education pathway, while workshops that do not require a keycode are for all other pharmacy professionals who have identified this topic as a learning need.
17 November 2025 at 13:30
Lewy Body DementiaZoom Room (Ash), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PA
Janita Patel and Emma Bocan-White
This residential workshop is only for pharmacy professionals who are taking part in Primary care pharmacy education pathway.
This two-day residential workshop is part of four days covering essential topics for pharmacy professionals working in primary care. It will help you develop the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to carry out effective communication and consultations and will introduce history taking and clinical assessment skills. It is intended for those new to the role and those with experience of working in primary care.
You need to attend all four days to complete the module.
This is a residential workshop, so CPPE will provide dinner and your overnight accommodation between days 3 and 4. This means you are ready to begin day 4 at 8:30am and gives you the opportunity to get to know your colleagues on the pathway.
17 November 2025 at 10:00
Primary care pharmacy essential skills - residential workshop (Days 3 and 4)Hilton Cobham, Cobham, KT11 1EW
Sejal Parikh and Sarita Savani
The aim of this programme is to develop your knowledge and skills to adopt a structured approach to safely provide weight management medicines, whether the mechanism of supply is prescribing or under a patient group direction.
PLEASE NOTE: The pre-workshop learning for this workshop takes the form of an e-course. To activate your e-course booking you need to go to the e-course section of your Learning record and click "Course access information".
For more information please see the video on this page.
Once you've booked your workshop why not book a place on our post-workshop panel discussion webinars:
Prescribing perspectives a focus on weight management - panel discussion 1 : CPPE
Prescribing perspectives a focus on weight management - panel discussion 2 : CPPE
17 November 2025 at 19:00
Weight management - prescribing perspectivesMecure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa, Lancashire, BB5 5JP
Michelle Staples
This learning is intended for clinical supervisors supporting pharmacy professionals on a CPPE national pathway. To check whether you are eligible to be a clinical supervisor please see the information on our Clinical supervisor page.
The aim of these two e-workshops is to provide clinical supervisors with the necessary knowledge and skills to support pharmacy professionals working in primary care on the CPPE National Pathways.
Please select Choose an event to see the dates for the live online e-workshop 1. If there is not a live online e-workshop that you can attend this is also available as a recording. You must attend or watch e-workshop 1 before attending e-workshop 2.
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18 November 2025 at 19:00
Clinical supervisor training for CPPE national training pathways 1/2Zoom Room (Tr), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_Tr
Karen Thomas and Alison Butt
The aim of this focal point is to develop your skills and confidence in using a person-centred approach to having conversations with people about depression.
18 November 2025 at 19:00
Depression: having meaningful conversations - focal pointZoom Room (Lo), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_Lo
Darshan Negandhi and Swati Patel
This event is only for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are taking part in one of the primary care extended education pathways.
The aim of this online workshop is to support pharmacy professionals to explore their personal leadership and the systems they are leading in. There are two online workshops that form part of the 13-week online module Leadership in primary care.
This booking is for workshop B: Leadership in primary care: Achieving the best from teams.
This workshop runs from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
Prework
All pathway pharmacy professionals must complete the entire Module 4 e-course before this online workshop as well as completing the reflective questions outlined in the pre-workshop handout.
All prework must be completed for this workshop or you will not be permitted to attend.
18 November 2025 at 09:30
Leadership in primary care - Workshop B: Achieving the best from teamsZoom Room (Gorse), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PG
Rina Babla and Deborah Cooper-Cunningham
This event is only for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are taking part in one of the primary care extended education pathways.
This online workshop forms part of the first module for the Primary care pharmacy education pathway. It is a full-day online workshop which you are expected to complete early in your training after you have attended the first two Primary Care Pharmacy essential skills workshops.
The overall aim of this workshop is to support you, as a pharmacy professional, to become embedded in your new role in your Primary Care Network (PCN) through building networks, working with colleagues, and planning how your role will develop.
You will also facilitate part of the workshop to give you the tools to lead education events in your organisation.
18 November 2025 at 09:30
Making an impact across systemsZoom Room (Fir), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PF
Richard Thompson and Susila Bagga
Enhance your role and plan your personal and professional development with CPPE's leadership, management and skill-focused resources.
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We provide a variety of learning programmes and assessments linked to clinical pharmacy, diseases and therapeutics. Our programmes support you to advance your knowledge and skills and deliver medicines optimisation in practice for all areas of pharmacy.
ExploreWe offer a range of resources that can help you to develop yourself as a pharmacy educator or trainer as well as enabling you to use our materials as you support others.
ExploreWe can offer you support and advice on your personal and professional development, respond to your individual needs and guide you through any professional difficulties you may face.
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