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.

 Antimicrobial resistance
 Child health
 Consultation skills: face-to-face and remote
 Culturally competent person-centred care
 Education
 Environmental sustainability
 Genomics
 Health and Justice pharmacy (prisons and secure environments)
 Leadership
 Learning disabilities
 Management
 Medication review
 Medicines reconciliation
 Older people
 Patient safety
 Pharmacy technicians
 Prescribing
 Primary care: general practice and care homes
 Repeat dispensing
 Research
 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: Stable angina
 Dementia
 Dermatology
 Diabetes (type 1)
 Diabetes (type 2)
 Epilepsy
 Gastrointestinal
 Glaucoma
 Gout
 Heart failure
 Hypercholesterolaemia
 Hypertension
 Infections
 Liver
 Mental health
 Minor ailments
 Musculoskeletal
 Neurology
 Nutrition, medicines and myths: evolution of pharmacy practice
 Osteoporosis
 Pain
 Palliative care
 Parkinson's disease
 Renal
 Respiratory
 Stroke and transient ischaemic attack
 Urinary incontinence and retention
 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
 Menopause
 Men's Health
 Oral health
 Sexual health
 Smoking
 Substance misuse
 Weight management
 Women's Health

News

03/08/2011 10:45:29

Prescribing legally and ethically - a new open learning programme

Prescribing legally and ethically is the first in a series of three open learning programmes designed to keep you up to date with all the non-clinical aspects of prescribing. This learning programme enables you to be sure that you are prescribing safely and within the law.

 

The second and third programmes in the series will be Influences on you as a prescriber and Prescribing safely and accountably. All three programmes will be available as downloadable PDF documents only and fall within CPPE's new Prescribers theme, which also includes the Non-medical prescribing e-assessment, available in the e-assessment portfolio.

About the programme

Prescribing legally and ethically is a  programme aimed at prescribers, but also contains a wealth of information that others might find useful, especially if you are considering undertaking or are currently studying for a prescribing course. Ideally you could consider working through the whole programme every two years or so, to remain up to date, but you could also use it as a reference guide, as it contains a wide range of information.

 

Prescribing legally and ethically covers:

  • the policy background
  • an examination of ethics and the ethical principles
  • an overview of case law relating to prescribing and negligence
  • the principles and law around consent and shows where these fit with the ethical principles
  • current legislation, helping identify the medicines that can be legally prescribed
  • the broad legislative framework regarding medicines and the licensing process.

 

To practise, you really need to be aware of how the law applies to you, about professional judgment and about liability and indemnity. The programme is about giving you the confidence and ability to prescribe legally and ethically.

 

To access the programme

The programme is available to download for free from this website to all pharmacists and registered pharmacy technicians in England.

 

Go to the programme page now

 

On the programme page simply click on the download icon to get the module as a PDF document.

 

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