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This 12-month programme is designed to support you to deliver safe and effective patient care at this pivotal stage in your career as you transition from a trainee to a fully qualified pharmacist. Applications are now open for Cohort 8.
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.
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.
A pathway for community pharmacy technicians to develop the skills and confidence to deliver effective clinical services in community pharmacy.
Thinking of applying to an independent prescribing course? Waiting for one to begin? This programme will ensure you are prepared and ready.
Legislation has changed to add pharmacy technicians to the list of healthcare professionals who can work under a PGD. This programme can empower you to extend your scope of practice and increase capacity for person-centred care.
Are you delivering or interested in the NHS Pharmacy Contraception service? Join our panel discussion where representatives from NHSE, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) and pharmacists will answer your questions.
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See all newsOur 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 learning programme aims to enable you to interpret and apply clinical guidance to support people with hypertension. You will consider how to optimise their treatment and use a shared decision-making approach to empower people with hypertension to self-manage their condition.
27 January 2025 at 19:00
Hypertension - focal pointZoom Room (El), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_El
Zara Mehra and Anita Joy
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.
27 January 2025 at 09:30
Primary care pharmacy education - Module 2: Case 2 - Niamh KellyZoom Room (Beech), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PB
Karen Thomas and Laura Wiltcher
This workshop is open to all pharmacy professionals who wish to improve their ability to demonstrate competence in the skills required for learning at Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) level 7 (Master’s degree). It is valuable learning for those completing their advanced practice portfolios and an optional part of the preparing to train as an independent prescriber programme. The aim of this programme is to support you to gain more confidence in academic writing and reflection in preparation for your HEI course such as independent prescribing or another Master’s level course or portfolio submission.
After booking the workshop, there is no pre-workshop book to download but about four weeks before the event the tutor will send and email with some tasks for you to complete ahead of the workshop. We strongly advise you to complete these so that you get the best from the workshop.
Bookings are subject to the CPPE cancellation policy.
28 January 2025 at 19:00
Academic writing and reflective practiceZoom Room (Bu), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_Bu
Craig Smith and Natalie O'Brien
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.
28 January 2025 at 09:30
Primary care pharmacy education - Module 2: Case 2 - Niamh KellyZoom Room (Beech), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PB
Nirali Joshi and Kathryn Giles
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.
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28 January 2025 at 10:00
Primary care pharmacy essential skills - residential workshop (Days 1 and 2)Holiday Inn, Cambridge, CB24 9PH
Oliver Jones and Clare Daly
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.
29 January 2025 at 09:30
Primary care pharmacy education - Module 2: Case 2 - Niamh KellyZoom Room (Beech), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PB
Mira Makhecha and Rizvan Ahmed
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.
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29 January 2025 at 10:00
Primary care pharmacy essential skills - residential workshop (Days 1 and 2)Weetwood Hall, Leeds, LS16 5PS
Susan Weatherhead and Christine Ramsay
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.
30 January 2025 at 13:30
DeprescribingZoom Room (Yo), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_Yo
Kristeen Turner and Deborah Needham
PLEASE NOTE: You will not be able to book onto this event if you have previously attended the Mental Health and wellbeing in primary care study day or the Mental health and wellbeing in primary care online workshops A and B.
This online workshop 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. It 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.
30 January 2025 at 09:30
Mental health and wellbeing in primary careZoom Room (Hazel), it will also be in your my bookings, _ZR_PH
Laura Charman and Sarah Deeming
The aim of this programme is to support you in shared decision making with people who are starting, restarting or changing contraception within the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS). The learning contains information on how to reach a shared decision on an appropriate formulation of contraception provided with the person using this service.
Scenarios based on those encountered in practice enable community pharmacy professionals to gain experience in the communication skills that they need to initiate contraception, within a safe learning environment.
Book a place on the post-workshop panel discussion webinar: NHS Pharmacy Contraception service (PCS) - panel discussion : CPPE
30 January 2025 at 19:30
NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service: delivering effective consultations to initiate contraceptionCitrus Hotel Coventry, West Midlands, CV8 3DY
Mandip Rooprai
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