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.

Dementia

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Welcome to the CPPE page on dementia. This sets out to introduce you to the resources that CPPE and other websites provide you around the topic of dementia. As you know, pharmacy plays an important role in working with patients, carers, health and social care teams, and other healthcare professionals to effectively manage dementia and associated medicines. On this page, you will find useful resources to better equip yourself and your team to feel confident when consulting with a patient with dementia or their carer. You could sign up to one of our workshops which may look at Consulting with older people, may look at working with people in dementia or you could think about doing one of our e-learning programmes around the topic of dementia. Look at the resources which are provided by the Alzheimer’s Society, or the resources from NICE, including clinical guidance and quality standards. There is a short quiz to get you started, and you can work your way through the rest of the resources in order to improve the service you provide to people living with dementia.

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The aim of this learning programme is to update your clinical knowledge of Lewy Body Dementia to enable you to optimise the medicines of people living with this condition. It builds on other learning we have available, which can be found on our Dementia learning gateway.

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.

 


4h:30m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

  • describe the place of medicines in a person’s treatment
  • explain the roles of other health professionals involved in a person’s care
  • identify situations when best interest principles should be applied
  • use a person-centred approach when consulting with residents and their carers to optimise their medicines
  • apply your learning to add quality to a person’s care to support their choice and independence.
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The overall aim of this programme is to develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to recognise, manage and optimise care for people living with dementia and their carers.

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.

 


5h:30m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

  • recognise the signs and symptoms of cognitive dysfunction
  • discuss the issue of anticholinergic burden in people with dementia and be familiar with the tools used to calculate anticholinergic burden
  • outline adjustments you and your team could make to improve consultations for people living with dementia and their family/carers
  • consider the use of medicines in dementia and your role in ensuring they are prescribed appropriately
  • signpost and refer people and their carers to engage local support services
  • become a Dementia Friends Champion and engage your team with the initiative.
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The aim of this e-workshop is to develop your knowledge and skills to help you manage and optimise care for patients who might lack mental capacity to make a specific decision relating to their medicines at a given point in time.

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6h:15m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • summarise the legal framework and professional standards surrounding the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • describe the important role of pharmacy professionals within the multidisciplinary team in ensuring the appropriate application and ongoing assessment of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its purpose in the use of medicines
  • identify situations in which pharmacy professionals might encounter issues concerning mental capacity during their practice, including appropriate use of covert administration of medicines and what issues to consider when making recommendations
  • identify suitable sources of information for understanding the assessment and ongoing management of mental capacity and covert administration of medicines
  • develop a working knowledge of the content and purpose of policies and procedures which relate to the management of medicines for patients suspected of lacking mental capacity
  • recognise the situations which require referrals to other healthcare professionals.
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This learning will support you to adopt a person-centred approach to involving people with dementia in consultations and decisions about their treatment and health.


4h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
  • discuss the importance and benefits of involving people with dementia in consultations and decisions about their treatment and health
  • describe the skills and techniques needed to engage and communicate effectively with people with dementia
  • identify some key national practice standards most applicable to pharmacy consultations with people with dementia
  • recognise and address the challenges of a three-way consultation
  • apply the knowledge, behaviours and person-centred skills needed to maximise the effectiveness of your consultations with people with dementia.
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The aim of this course is to help you to develop your knowledge and skills to support people who are experiencing mental health problems. Following an introduction to mental health we will concentrate on:

  • depression
  • anxiety disorders and insomnia
  • bipolar disorder
  • schizophrenia
  • older people and dementia
  • children and adolescents.

By participating fully and actively with the content and discussion groups, you will feel more confident in engaging with people with mental health problems to improve the quality of the support you provide.

This programme runs for 12 weeks.

You can find the enrolment and delivery dates for this course on our main e-courses page.


60h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)


Learning Outcomes:

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

  • describe some common symptoms experienced by people with mental health problems
  • list examples of non-pharmacological approaches in the management of mental health problems
  • describe the main classes of medicines used in the management of mental health problems and how and when they are used
  • access the relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance and resources
  • identify approaches to improve your consultation skills with people who are experiencing mental health problems using a person-centred approach
  • explain the key role the pharmacy team has in supporting people with mental health problems to make decisions about their medicines and optimise their outcomes
  • describe how pharmacy teams can support people with mental health problems in different care settings and across care interfaces.
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Use this factsheet to refresh your knowledge of dementia and identify appropriate further resources.

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This quality standard covers preventing dementia, and assessment, management and health and social care support for people with dementia. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

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This guideline covers diagnosing and managing dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease). It aims to improve care by making recommendations on training staff and helping carers to support people living with dementia.

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An interactive e-learning resource to support the training of all health and social care staff in supporting people to live well with dementia.

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Alzheimer's Society - United Against Dementia webpage

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