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
 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
 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
 Stable Angina
New
 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

CPPE Optimise programmes

Topic list
This Optimise programme has now been withdrawn
Some of the guides and additional resources have been removed as they may now be out of date. You can still provide feedback and complete the badge.

Sepsis: Focus on sepsis management for people in hospital

Released: 30/06/2020

Programme withdrawn

This programme has been withdrawn. The materials are no longer available to access but you can still submit feedback and earn the badge.

Expert and programme contributor

Mark Clymer, critical care pharmacist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Programme developer

John Bentley, learning development pharmacist, CPPE

Writers

Fiona Astill, Paediatric Registrar and Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellow
Sarah Khorshid, critical care pharmacist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Hasinaa Patel, specialist clinical pharmacist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Design team

Fiona Astill, Paediatric Registrar and Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellow
Cindy Boyd, clinical fellow, CPPE
Mark Clymer, critical care pharmacist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sarah Khorshid, critical care pharmacist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Hasinaa Patel, specialist clinical pharmacist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Connie Sharrock, medicine safety pharmacist, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Clare Smith, lead pharmacist, learning development, CPPE
Janette Stephenson, education supervisor, CPPE

CPPE reviewers

Lesley Grimes, head of learning development, CPPE
Yinka Kuye, regional tutor, CPPE

External reviewers

Greg Barton, specialist pharmacist, critical care and burns, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Philip Howard, consultant antimicrobial pharmacist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS trust

Editor

Sonia Mills, assistant editor, CPPE

Piloted by

Avril Lynch, antimicrobial pharmacist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Samantha Emery, critical care pharmacist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Kate Quigley, AMU Pharmacist, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

References

UK Sepsis Trust