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This e-course aims to support pharmacy technicians to recognise how their skills, knowledge, understanding and professional behaviours allow them to provide safe and effective care. Click here to find out more.
The Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2021/22 has now begun, and you can find information about the training requirements that form part of the PQS on our dedicated page.
Are you a pharmacist or pharmacy technician employed as part of the primary care network Direct Enhanced Service additional role reimbursement scheme? Click here to apply and join our pathway.
This programme will help you with the knowledge and understanding required to have constructive conversations around vaccine hesitancy, and to consider how this may be impacted by health inequalities.
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ExploreThis 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 system that 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 2: Leadership in primary care: Achieving the best from teams.
This workshop runs from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
Prework
All pathway pharmacy professionals must 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.
8 July 2022 at 0930
Leadership in primary care - Workshop B: Achieving the best from teamsZoom Room (Gorse), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PG
Sameena Mir and Philippa Walters
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.
8 July 2022 at 0930
Learning disabilities - medicines optimisation support (Primary care pathways)Zoom Room (Elm), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PE
Sheetal Pancholi and Kerry Proctor
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.
8 July 2022 at 1330
Learning disabilities - medicines optimisation support (Primary care pathways)Zoom Room (Elm), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PE
Sheetal Pancholi and Kerry Proctor
The aim of this online workshop is to update your clinical knowledge of the pharmaceutical management of several long-term neurological conditions to enable you to help facilitate the seamless transfer of care for people living with these conditions between different care settings. You will consider how to support people living with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Acquired Brain Injury and Lewy Body dementia.
It will enable you to identify specific issues that should be considered in optimising the medicines of people living with long-term neurological conditions, living in either care homes or their own homes and will support you as a pharmacy professional to help implement the Enhanced health in care home framework.
8 July 2022 at 0930
Neurology and dementia in primary careZoom Room (Fir), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PF
Laura Wiltcher and Helena Young
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.
8 July 2022 at 0930
Primary care pharmacy education - Module 2: Case 2 - Niamh KellyZoom Room (Cherry), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PC
Ciara Richardson and Deborah Cooper-Cunningham
The overall aim of this course is to create a culture shift in practice by supporting pharmacists to embed shared decision making as part of personalised care.
Please note: When you book study day 1 you will be automatically be booked onto the linked date for study day 2.
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8 July 2022 at 0915
Shared decision making - Online workshops 1 and 2Zoom Room (Ru), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_Ru
Andreia Goncalves Filipe and Tanya Gray
11 July 2022 at 19:00
Health inequalities: focus on vaccine hesitancy - OptimiseZoom Room (Yo), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_Yo
Christopher Bonsell and Maxine Brown
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 system that 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 2: Leadership in primary care: Achieving the best from teams.
This workshop runs from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
Prework
All pathway pharmacy professionals must 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.
11 July 2022 at 0930
Leadership in primary care - Workshop B: Achieving the best from teamsZoom Room (Gorse), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PG
Craig Smith and Zainab Kantharia
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.
11 July 2022 at 0930
Making an impact across systemsZoom Room (Larch), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PL
Tracy Hedley and Rina Babla
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.
11 July 2022 at 0930
Primary care pharmacy education - Module 2: Case 2 - Niamh KellyZoom Room (Cherry), it will also be in your pending bookings, _ZR_PC
Janita Patel and Nirali Joshi
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ExploreYou asked what CPPE provided to help you work towards the Pharmacy Quality Scheme.
We created an overview page detailing information about the scheme, what learning CPPE provide and how to access it. View the PQS page here.
You told us that you wanted to regain confidence to use your prescribing qualifications.
We developed a new residential course, Return to prescribing, and a guide to prescriber CPD.
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We extended our Live chat operating hours to 9.30-4.30 every week day except bank holidays.
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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 sectors 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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