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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.

Biochemistry

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Welcome to the biochemistry page. The aim of this page is to help you get more confident with being able to interpret lab results, and to communicate that effectively with patients. It can be quite overwhelming when you see lab results the first time and you don’t know what to do with them; but after this, you will get more confident with being able to interpret them. In the cases you will meet some patient, and you will be presented with their biochemistry data. You’ll then need to play the role of detective and find out what’s going on with the patient as a whole; and based on that, you’ll be able to make some recommendations to help the patient. There’s lots of information on how to interpret lab results, so we’ve chosen the ones that are a most helpful for you. We hope that you enjoy putting this learning into practice

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Learn what blood results should be reviewed, why they are important and the impact of medicines when a patient has an acute kidney injury (AKI).


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Learn how to recognise abnormal liver function test results, how to explain this physiologically and the appropriate action to take when abnormal results are due to medicines.


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Learn how to recognise abnormal biochemistry results, make recommendations on treatments for iron deficiency anaemia and monitoring requirements.


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Learn what blood results should be reviewed when assessing a patient's thyroid function, describe how these blood results differ when a patient has a thyroid disorder and interpret a patient's blood results to recommend interventions for their medicines.


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Learn what the monitoring requirements, and targets associated with HbA1c and cholesterol results, are for people with type 2 diabetes, interpret those results accurately, and develop strategies to support patients in achieving their targets.


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Learn to recognise abnormal inflammatory markers, understand how you can use these to monitor an infection, and describe the appropriate action to take when a patient has a bacterial infection and their condition is not improving despite treatment.


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The aim of this piece of learning is to support you to become more confident with biochemistry results and managing medicines in relation to those results. We have a series of case studies on different topics to help put your learning into practice.


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • interpret abnormal bone profile results
  • describe the role of parathyroid hormone in calcium and phosphate homeostasis
  • explain how prolonged high parathyroid hormone levels can lead to bone disease.
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The aim of this piece of learning is to support you to become more confident with biochemistry results and managing medicines in relation to those results. We have a series of case studies on different topics to help put your learning into practice.


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • list the relevant blood results you would review when you identify a patient at risk of a DVT
  • explain why these are important for assessing coagulation
  • interpret a patient’s blood results and use to provide guidance for recommended management of coagulation disorders.
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The aim of this piece of learning is to support you to become more confident with biochemistry results and managing medicines in relation to those results. We have a series of case studies on different topics to help put your learning into practice.


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Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • describe what troponin is
  • explain to a patient why troponin levels are measured
  • interpret a patients troponin results to determine if someone has had a myocardial infarction
  • interpret brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels to determine if someone has heart failure.
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This e-assessment is linked with the CPPE biochemistry case studies, not the e-learning programme and assesses you on the learning outcomes within those case studies.


Why should I do this assessment?

This e-assessment completes the learning you began with the case studies available on the Biochemistry gateway page. You will have the opportunity to apply the knowledge you have gained by relating biochemistry results to clinical scenarios. Access and successful completion will contribute to your own personal development plan, be recorded in your My CPPE record and will enable you to complete a CPD entry on the learning. It may also provide evidence for achieving competencies in the RPS Foundation or Advanced Pharmacy Frameworks.
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A website aimed at patients so they can understand clinical lab tests. This may help you reflect on how to communicate blood test results to patients.

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The aim of this e-learning programme is to provide learners with a basic awareness of important blood tests and how to interpret them in order to support the diagnosis and management of patients. Section 1 covers full blood count, inflammatory markers and coagulation.

There are three sections which make up this learning programme. To access the other sections, select the links below:

Section 2 covers chronic disease markers, urea and electrolytes and liver function tests.

Section 3 covers thyroid function tests, bone function tests and therapeutic drug monitoring.

Please note: this e-learning programme has been developed and provided by the Welsh Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education (WCPPE). Users should recognise that this programme may refer to Welsh policies and organisations. CPPE does not maintain control over the accuracy and currency of this programme.


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Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all three sections of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • explain the importance of laboratory testing in diagnostics and patient monitoring
  • demonstrate understanding of the theoretical basis of and varied approach to investigation and monitoring of interventions
  • advise on the appropriate treatment of patients with abnormal test results
  • recognise the drugs that require therapeutic drug monitoring.
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The aim of this e-learning programme is to provide learners with a basic awareness of important blood tests and how to interpret them in order to support the diagnosis and management of patients. Section 2 covers chronic disease markers, urea and electrolytes and liver function tests.

There are three sections which make up this learning programme. To access the other sections, select the links below:

Section 1 covers full blood count, inflammatory markers and coagulation.

Section 3 covers thyroid function tests, bone function tests and therapeutic drug monitoring.

Please note: this e-learning programme has been developed and provided by the Welsh Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education (WCPPE). Users should recognise that this programme may refer to Welsh policies and organisations. CPPE does not maintain control over the accuracy and currency of this programme.


3h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all three sections of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • explain the importance of laboratory testing in diagnostics and patient monitoring
  • demonstrate understanding of the theoretical basis of and varied approach to investigation and monitoring of interventions
  • advise on the appropriate treatment of patients with abnormal test results
  • recognise the drugs that require therapeutic drug monitoring.
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The aim of this e-learning programme is to provide learners with a basic awareness of important blood tests and how to interpret them in order to support the diagnosis and management of patients. Section 3 covers thyroid function tests, bone function tests and therapeutic drug monitoring.

There are three sections which make up this learning programme. To access the other sections, select the links below:

Section 1 covers full blood count, inflammatory markers and coagulation.

Section 2 covers chronic disease markers, urea and electrolytes and liver function tests.

Please note: this e-learning programme has been developed and provided by the Welsh Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education (WCPPE). Users should recognise that this programme may refer to Welsh policies and organisations. CPPE does not maintain control over the accuracy and currency of this programme.


3h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all three sections of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • explain the importance of laboratory testing in diagnostics and patient monitoring
  • demonstrate understanding of the theoretical basis of and varied approach to investigation and monitoring of interventions
  • advise on the appropriate treatment of patients with abnormal test results
  • recognise the drugs that require therapeutic drug monitoring.

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