NHS priorities

Whether it’s to prepare for the next Pharmacy Quality Scheme deadline, or to increase your confidence in helping people with a learning disability, this section provides topic-specific pages that link to current NHS priorities. This section will support you in keeping your knowledge and skills up to date in order to provide high-quality pharmacy services and be service-ready.

Clinical pharmacy

Our clinical portfolio is expanding on a frequent basis, helping you to advance your knowledge and skills and deliver medicines optimisation in practice for all sectors of pharmacy. From two new focal points a year to our small group learning for hospital pharmacists – Optimise – this section focuses on clinical pharmacy, diseases and therapeutics.

Public health

The public health agenda is embedded in pharmacy, yet topics such as emergency contraception or stop smoking support are as prevalent as ever. As well as our public health workshops, use this section to access a wide range of resources to assure and maintain your competence, all underpinned by the Declaration of Competence system.

Frameworks for the RPS Core Advanced Curriculum

Education and training leads from across the country have told us that they and the pharmacists that they support would greatly benefit from using CPPE's programmes and guides to help them practice at an advanced level. However, these same leads have told us that they are often unsure which programmes to signpost to.

After much discussion with the RPS and NHS England, we have agreed that the best approach would be to map our programmes to specific capabilities in the RPS Core Advanced Curriculum.

These programmes are mapped within a series of self-assessment frameworks, one for each RPS Core Advanced Curriculum domain. These frameworks are best used as a learning needs analysis, and can also be used by managers to help guide supervision. You can access them below.

 

Please note

  • Completion of the suggested programmes alone does not qualify as evidence of practice at an advanced level. You must also implement the learning in your practice, and provide evidence of how you've done so.
  • Although the RPS Core Advanced Curriculum is designed for pharmacists, the frameworks listed above are also suitable for use by pharmacy technicians to develop their careers.