NHS priorities

Whether it’s to prepare for the next Quality Payments 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.

 Antimicrobial resistance
 Care homes
 Child health
 Consultation skills (advanced)
 Consultation skills (foundation)
 COVID-19
 Culturally competent person-centred care
New
 Education
 General practice
 Health and Justice pharmacy (prisons and secure environments)
 Leadership
 Learning disabilities
 Management
 Medication review
 Medicines reconciliation
 NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service
 Older people
 Patient safety
 Pharmacy technicians
 Prescribing
 Remote consultations
 Repeat dispensing
 Return to practice
 Revalidation
 Safeguarding
 Sepsis
 Summary Care Records
 Transfer of care
 Urgent care

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.

 Acute coronary syndromes
 Anticoagulation
 Atrial fibrillation and arrhythmias
 Biochemistry
 Cancer
 Coronary heart disease
 Dementia
 Dermatology
 Diabetes (type 1)
 Diabetes (type 2)
 Epilepsy
 Gastrointestinal
 Glaucoma
 Gout
 Heart failure
 Hypercholesterolaemia
 Hypertension
 Infections
 Liver
 Mental health
 Minor ailments
 Musculoskeletal
 Neurology
 Osteoporosis
 Pain
 Palliative care
 Parkinson's disease
 Renal
 Respiratory
 Stroke and transient ischaemic attack
New
 Surgery
 Urinary incontinence and retention
New
 Venous thromboembolism and embolism

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.

 Alcohol
 Contraception
 Emergency hormonal contraception
 Health Checks
 Healthy Living Pharmacies
 Immunisation
 Oral health
 Sexual health
 Smoking
 Substance misuse
 Weight management

Developing your career

Return to practice

Our Return to practice course supports pharmacy professionals (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians):

  • returning to community pharmacy practice following a career break
  • wanting to change sector to community pharmacy
  • returning to practice in England after work elsewhere in the UK or in other countries worldwide.

If you have been out of practice or off the register for more than a year and want to return to pharmacy practice to provide NHS services in England within the next six months, this course is for you. Read our customer testimonials.

The course runs as a tutor-led online course supplemented by a range of purpose designed online and printed materials. This includes presentations, scenarios and simulations, quizzes, and discussions.

Read our frequently asked questions about returning to practice.

The next series of events will run on the following dates:

Introductory session - Thursday 24 February 2022 (7pm to 9pm)

Day 1: Community pharmacy framework - Friday 11 March 2022 (9am to 4pm)

Day 2: A typical pharmacy day: person-centred care - Friday 18 March 2022 (9am to 4pm)

Day 3: Medicines optimisation - Friday 22 April 2022 (9am to 4pm)

Day 4: Commissioned services and public health - Friday 29 April 2022 (9am to 4pm)

An important element of the course is collaborative and shared learning. For this reason we ask participants to commit to the whole series. Please ensure you can fully attend each day.

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