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.
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.
Find out more about the new Pharmacist Enhanced Practice Pathway for newly qualified pharmacists who are independent prescribers at the point of registration.
Refine your consultation skills to deliver safe, person-centred care in this important area of practice.
Designed and delivered in partnership with senior leaders from across the profession, our programme is aimed at pharmacy professionals who hold a formal leadership qualification and aspire to a more significant leadership role.
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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.
ExplorePLEASE NOTE: This programme is currently run for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians taking part in the Primary care pharmacy education pathway, the Advancing your practice in education pathway and the Pharmacy technician development programme.
The overall aim of this programme is to develop your facilitation and presentation skills and give you confidence to help others to get the most from their learning experiences.
It helps you acquire the knowledge, develop the skills and demonstrate the behaviours needed to deliver high-quality facilitation and presentation skills as part of your pharmacy practice.
17 July 2026 at 10:00
Helping others learnThe Montague on the Gardens Hotel, London, WC1B 5BJ
Brian Conn and Tracy Hedley
This event is only for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are taking part in one of the primary care extended education pathways.
The aim for this case study and associated study day is to support pharmacy professionals working in primary care to update their clinical knowledge on supporting somebody with a complex cardiac history, and includes cardiac conditions such as hypertension and heart failure.
17 July 2026 at 09:30
Primary care pharmacy education - Module 2: Case 2 - Niamh KellyZoom Room (Larch), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PL
Sameena Mir and Lisa Drinkwater
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 learning set is to enable you to develop your knowledge and skills of safe and effective processes in care homes, including prescription ordering, medicine storage and completing relevant documentation.
17 July 2026 at 13:30
Safe processes for medicines optimisation in the care homeZoom Room (Beech), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PB
Andreia Goncalves Filipe and Karen Walker
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.
20 July 2026 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
Karen Walker and Nirali Joshi
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.
20 July 2026 at 09:30
Making an impact across systemsZoom Room (Fir), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PF
Andreia Goncalves Filipe and Chandni Gadher
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 to optimise medicines use in primary care networks and develop your role in primary care. 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 1 and 2. This means you are ready to begin day 2 at 8:30am and gives you the opportunity to get to know your colleagues on the pathway.
20 July 2026
Primary care pharmacy essential skills - residential workshop (Days 1 and 2)Canvas, Online,
and Claire Bones
This face-to-face workshop is only for pharmacists who are taking part in Primary care pharmacy education pathway.
This face-to-face workshop will introduce pharmacists to the essential clinical history taking relating to respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms and the clinical observation and clinical assessment skills needed to manage people with respiratory and cardiovascular disease. The workshop will be led by an experienced GP and includes clinical scenarios to help apply learning to practice.
Learners must have attended the Respiratory and Cardiovascular clinical assessment skills online workshop Day 1 and completed the online Module 3 e- course prior to attending the day, we estimate the tasks in the e-course to equate to 10 - 12 hours of learning in total depending on your learning style and previous knowledge.
20 July 2026 at 10:00
Respiratory and Cardiovascular clinical assessment skills workshop Day 2 (face-to-face)Doubletree by Hilton, Leeds, LS1 4BR
Catherine Denby
This training aims to support pharmacists and pharmacy technicians develop knowledge and skills to adopt a structured approach in safely providing weight management medicines, whether the mechanism of supply is prescribing or under a patient group direction (PGD).
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".
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
The aim of this workshop is to develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to take a shared approach to the safe and appropriate deprescribing of medicines.
A note about keycodes, and pathway and non-pathway event listings
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.
21 July 2026 at 13:30
DeprescribingZoom Room (Cherry), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PC
Jennifer Graham and Clara Alonso Malpartida
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.
21 July 2026 at 09:30
Making an impact across systemsZoom Room (Fir), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PF
Clare Neal and Ciara Richardson
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.
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