The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and CPPE are working together to support pharmacists to be recognised as practising at an advanced level of practice in line with the RPS Core Advanced Curriculum and the NHS England Workforce, Training and Education (WTE) ACP framework.
Those who successfully complete the RPS ePortfolio assessment will be credentialed as an Advanced Pharmacist. This credentialling will mean you will have recognised equivalence in level of advanced practice to those who have completed the NHS England WTE ePortfolio (supported) Route or an NHS England WT&E-accredited advanced practice programme.
Following an initial pilot which finished in March 2025, the funding-supported programme has been extended to further pre-approved places.
The fully-funded RPS advanced credentialing support programme is only currently open to pharmacists who have previously completed an expression of interest form with the Centre for Advancing Practice (CAP). This will then be approved and sent to CPPE.
If you have previously completed a CAP accredited MSc programme you may already have equivalent advanced status.
The aim of the programme is to support you, with education supervision, to develop a portfolio of evidence to be credentialed as an Advanced Pharmacist.
The six-month supported programme comprises of access to online development resources via the Canvas learning platform, individual online education supervision sessions and opportunities for peer support and networking in group tutorials and evidence review sessions.
All meetings and webinars take place online via Zoom or Teams platform.
Once you have identified your own personal learning needs through completion of the self-assessment framework and discussion with an education supervisor in a learning needs analysis, the programme will support you to:
This supported programme is only currently open to pharmacists who have received prior approval from the Centre for Advancing Practice.
Pharmacists must meet the following criteria:
Cohort 1 enrolment begins in March 2025. Your portfolio must be submitted to the RPS in early October 2025.
An education supervisor will contact you to arrange an initial call once you have enrolled.
You will undertake a learning needs analysis discussion with an education supervisor to identify a SMART action plan to support you to collect your portfolio of evidence.
The programme comprises of four mandatory evening online sessions via Zoom delivered over six months. All sessions will start at 7pm and there will be a choice of dates, bookable through the CPPE website. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Four mandatory sessions:
Group tutorials run from 7 – 8.30pm, evidence review sessions run from 7 – 9pm.
The support will also include optional online drop-in sessions at lunchtime in June and August. These are bookable through the CPPE website and provide an opportunity to ask questions about your ePortfolio.
There will be the opportunity to attend domain specific webinars during the course of the supported programme to showcase examples and help address common pitfalls of each domain.
At the end of the six months, you will have a portfolio review with an education supervisor before submitting your portfolio to the RPS assessment panel for review.
Pharmacists working towards Advanced Pharmacist credentialing will need to access support from a range of sources to effectively demonstrate their capability against the RPS Core Advanced Pharmacist curriculum.
Workplace supervisors and mentors with appropriate experience and skills will be important to support you with your identified areas for development and provide constructive meaningful feedback for your portfolio evidence.
This webinar explores learning from the pilot, from the perspectives of both the CPPE education supervisor team and pharmacists who took part in this pilot.
If this does not apply to you but you are keen to address your development needs to help you to meet the RPS curriculum outcomes, please access the CPPE self-assessment frameworks for the RPS Core Advanced Curriculum for your own self-directed learning.
