Welcome to the CPPE Primary care: general practice and care homes learning gateway.
Pharmacy professionals are expanding their roles in general practice and care homes by supporting medicines optimisation, using shared decision making and NHS England’s personalised care agenda.
Pharmacy professionals are equipped to drive best practice in medicines optimisation through leadership and quality improvement. Pharmacy professionals working in general practice and care homes can build networks, working across systems supporting the multidisciplinary health and social care teams to offer the very best person-centred care. They can also assist colleagues in community pharmacy as well as secondary and tertiary care to support transfer of care. Pharmacy professionals can support people living in care homes by carrying out medication reviews, providing training and support to care homes staff, and helping the whole multidisciplinary team (MDT) to meet national quality standards for providing safe, effective and appropriate care to the general population and people living in care homes.
On this page, you will find a wide range of resources which will support you when working in general practice or care homes, or that will be useful if you are thinking about moving into these fields.
Those of you who are already experienced in general practice or care homes will find resources to help you develop your role.
The aim of this workshop is to increase your understanding of falls and how the pharmacy team can help prevent and support those who have had a fall.
3h: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:The aim of this workshop is to develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to take a shared approach to the safe and appropriate deprescribing of medicines.
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.
3h: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:
The aim of this course is to prepare pharmacy professionals for working within general practice or a primary care network (PCN). This is done by sharing the experiences of others, supporting individuals to highlight individual development needs and signposting to key resources.
12h: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:
This Primary care essentials e-course is a standalone module. However, it also forms part of the Primary care pharmacy education pathway which is the training for pharmacy professionals with roles in primary care networks (PCN). You can access the pathway here.
The aim of this e-course is to introduce the fundamentals of new roles in primary care for those who are not eligible for the Primary care pharmacy education pathway.
This e-course will cover NHS structure and primary care, introduction to local general practice and care homes, medicines optimisation, medication review, prescribing and repeat prescribing, prescribing data, clinical information technology systems, audits, evidence-based use of medicines, working with the multidisciplinary team and person-centred professionalism.
By working through the activities in each unit and focusing on the tasks relating to your role, you will develop knowledge, skills, experience, and behaviours to support you in a role in primary care.
We have structured the programme into ten learning units and we estimate that you will probably need to commit between eight to ten hours of learning per unit to gain maximum benefit from the programme.
70h: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:This resource is not currently available to you, click for more information.
This learning programme will update your knowledge on the roles and responsibilities of different members of the multidisciplinary health and social care team, and how you can work with them to support personalised care. You will develop your knowledge of the legislation, quality and standards used to support care homes and how pharmacy teams can support medicines optimisation for people living in care homes.
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:
In this video-based e-learning programme, we consider the key skills you can use to take an effective clinical history. The program uses the Calgary-Cambridge guide to take you through the clinical history-taking process and introduces you to tools and resources to help you demonstrate a patient-centred approach to the consultation.
3h: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:Pharmacy professionals, as an integral part of the NHS Long Term Plan, are now routinely working in GP practices, care homes, secondary care, community and commissioning within a multi-disciplinary team. This growing infrastructure demands the need for effective communication between healthcare professionals working in different sectors. This programme will support you with documenting in patient clinical records to enable continuity of patient care in integrated local services.
6h: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:
The aim of this learning programme is to help you support people taking multiple medicines to get the most out of their medicines and increase your confidence in addressing potentially problematic polypharmacy.
2h: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:
The aim of this learning programme is to support you to identify overprescribing in your own area of practice and help you empower people to be more involved in decisions about their care.
1h: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:
This e-learning programme is for all pharmacy professionals undertaking virtual consultations. It has been developed to support you in applying your existing consultation skills when undertaking consultations via video and over the phone.
2h: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:This distance learning programme will enable you to support people with a learning disability and their families to manage behaviours that challenge, in line with National Institute of Health and Care Excellence guidance. It will also empower you to adopt a holistic approach to medicines optimisation to help people with a learning disability to be involved in the consultation when they can and to make the most of their medicines.
8h: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:We have a portfolio of clinical fact sheets which includes topics such as sepsis, pneumonia, UTIs and healthcare associated infections. Each fact sheet should refresh your knowledge of that particular condition and provide you with links to appropriate further resources.
This e-assessment is linked with the CPPE Primary care essentials e-course and assesses you on the learning outcomes within that programme.
Why should I do this assessment?
This e-assessment completes the learning you began with the CPPE Primary care essentials e-course. 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.This e-assessment is linked with CPPE’s Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines e-learning programme, and covers the learning outcomes within that programme.
Why should I do this assessment?
This e-assessment completes the learning you began with the Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines programme. Access and successful completion will contribute to your own personal development plan, and be recorded in your CPPE Learning record. It will also enable you to complete a revalidation record on the learning, and could provide evidence for achieving competencies in the different competency frameworks that apply across your career.
This e-assessment is linked with the practice standards for consultation skills and the CPPE consultation skills learning programmes.
Why should I do this assessment?
Access and successful completion of this assessment 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. If you are working towards completing a Declaration of Competence for a pharmacy service, successful completion of this assessment will provide evidence of your learning.
Information, guidance and links to further resources to support the current GP contract.
Information for adult social care services.
This guideline covers good practice for managing medicines in care homes.
A guide to support pharmacists working in or with GP practices.
A guide that provides support and signposting to help pharmacists who are working in/with care homes.
An RPS report outlining the impact a pharmacist can have in a care home to reduce serious harm caused by inappropriate use of medicines, as well as reduce medicines waste.
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