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
 Care homes
 Child health
 Consultation skills (advanced)
 Consultation skills (foundation)
 COVID-19
 Culturally competent person-centred care
 Education
 General practice
 Genomics
New
 Health and Justice pharmacy (prisons and secure environments)
 Leadership
 Learning disabilities
 Management
 Medication review
 Medicines reconciliation
 NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service
 Older people
 Patient safety
 Pharmacy technicians
 Prescribing
 Remote consultations
 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
 Coronary heart disease
 Dementia
 Dermatology
 Diabetes (type 1)
 Diabetes (type 2)
 Epilepsy
 Gastrointestinal
 Glaucoma
 Gout
 Heart failure
 Hypercholesterolaemia
 Hypertension
 Infections
 Liver
 Mental health
 Minor ailments
 Musculoskeletal
 Neurology
 Osteoporosis
 Pain
 Palliative care
 Parkinson's disease
 Renal
 Respiratory
 Stroke and transient ischaemic attack
 Surgery
 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
 Oral health
 Sexual health
 Smoking
 Substance misuse
 Weight management

Learning programmes and assessments

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e-course

Introduction to public health


  • Released: 10/2017
  • Reviewed: 11/2021
  • Study time: 4h:0m
  • Start date: Anytime
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The overall aim of this course is to enable you to develop your knowledge and acquire skills that will allow you to integrate public health into your routine pharmacy practice. It will help you to meet the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Professional standards for public health practice for pharmacy. This is a self-directed course, which means you can access the content at any time. There are four modules in this e-course, covering different topics relating to public health.

Learning outcomes

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

  • describe the three domains of public health
  • state the nine RPS professional standards for public health
  • recognise the role of Public Health England (PHE), Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) in supporting the provision of public health
  • identify how pharmacy practice can support the delivery of public health across England
  • outline the main health inequalities and priority services driving the provision of public health in your local area
  • recognise national priorities and how community pharmacy can support these
  • review and evaluate the roles that pharmacy professionals can play in supporting public health services
  • critique the evidence for public health practice in pharmacy and plan actions to support your patients and the public to protect and improve their health.

How to use this programme

Our e-courses are run online. The programme runs in Canvas™ and you will be registered by CPPE and informed of your login details. This e-course is self-directed. This means that you can work through the course at a time and pace that suits you. There is a menu on the left hand side of the page to navigate through each area and you can access each unit and its content separately.

Learning intended for

  • Pharmacists
  • Pharmacy technicians
  • Trainee pharmacists