This Optimise training for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainee pharmacists focuses on sustainable respiratory healthcare. It supports your team to have meaningful conversations with people about their inhaler use to manage conditions such as asthma and COPD, with the aim to improve people's health and environmental outcomes.
The Sustainable respiratory care Optimise training assumes you have some prior knowledge of the topic areas.
If you wish to revise your knowledge, you may find the following helpful as optional learning resources:
Respiratory:
Sustainability:
This workshop involves 20 minutes of preparation for each participant and a 40-minute group session. During the small group learning session, activities will allow learners to test their knowledge, debate controversial topics, make justified clinical decisions and practice communicating with patients and/or other healthcare professionals.
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After the workshop, consider your next steps:
Expert and programme contributor
Ravijyot Saggu, medicines optimisation and respiratory lead pharmacist, Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust/Northwest London ICB; Respiratory Committee chair, UKCPA
CPPE programme developer
Helena Young, senior learning and development pharmacist
Content contributors
Darush Attar-Zadeh, clinical fellow respiratory pharmacist, NWL Integrated Care Board; executive chair, Primary Care Respiratory Society
Dorothy Ayella, lived experience representative (parent of a child with asthma)
Eva Bayerkoehler, pharmacist
Amy Butler, lived experience representative
Nuala Hampson, senior university teacher, pharmacy practice, The University of Sheffield; pharmacy lead, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
Poh Long, senior clinical pharmacist, Chiswick PCN and CPPE regional tutor, London
Michelle Staples, sustainability lead, education supervisor and regional tutor, CPPE
Reviewers
Dr Emily Kennedy, clinical pharmacist (respiratory, climate emergency and sustainability), effective prescribing and therapeutics division, NHS Dumfries and Galloway
Min Na Eii, advanced pharmacy practitioner, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust
CPPE reviewers
Deb Howard, regional manager, North West
Saadia Khalid, education supervisor
Sameena Mir, education supervisor
Piloted by
Poh Long, senior clinical pharmacist, Chiswick PCN with Brentworth PCN, Chiswick PCN, Feltham and Bedfont PCN, Great West Road PCN and Hounslow Health PCN
CPPE editor
Lee Swettenham, web development editor
References
Disclaimer
We have developed this learning programme to support your practice in this topic area. We recommend that you use it in combination with other established reference sources. If you are using it significantly after the date of initial publication, you should refer to current published evidence. CPPE does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions.
Brand names and trademarks
CPPE acknowledges the following brand names and registered trademarks mentioned throughout this programme: Symbicort®, Clenil Modulite®.
External websites
CPPE is not responsible for the content of any non-CPPE websites mentioned in this programme or for the accuracy of any information to be found there.
All web links were accessed on 19 January 2026.
