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

Learning programmes and assessments

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Clinical assessment skills for pharmacy technicians: Primary care pathways


  • Released: 03/2022
  • Reviewed: 07/2024
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This workshop is only for pharmacy technicians who are enrolled on the Primary care pharmacy education pathway or the Community pharmacy technician: advancing your role programme.

This interactive workshop will support pharmacy technicians in exploring how they can effectively develop and progress their clinical assessment skills to develop their roles in primary care and community pharmacy. Learners must complete the Clinical assessment skills e-course on their programme Canvas learning platform prior to attending the workshop. Please allow enough time to do this before attending the workshop, as we estimate the tasks in the e-course may require a day or more of learning time depending on your learning style and previous knowledge.

Learning outcomes

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

  • describe the benefits of pharmacy technician’s undertaking clinical assessment skills
  • describe the challenges and barriers to pharmacy technicians developing clinical assessment skills
  • identify solutions to the challenges and barriers to pharmacy technicians developing clinical assessment skills
  • create an action plan to develop competency in the minimum set of clinical assessment skills for the pathway
  • describe the clinical history-taking process
  • apply tools and techniques to demonstrate a structured person-centred approach to clinical history taking
  • identify presenting red flag symptoms in the consultation to enable safe, effective, ‘warm’ clinical transfer of the individual
  • identify limits of own practice and when it is appropriate to refer people on to another healthcare provider such as a pharmacist or GP
  • demonstrate a safe and effective closure to the consultation including safety netting, signposting and referral when necessary
  • complete an accurate and concise clinical record to support data sharing across healthcare settings and transfer of care.

How to use this programme

How to use this programme information 

When you book onto this event it will appear on your CPPE My bookings page.

Please note:

  • We expect you to prepare for our events by completing all pre-workshop activities. Details of these will be emailed to you by the tutor or can be found via your My bookings page.
  • Before the event make sure you know where the venue is, and allow sufficient time for travel. 
  • Please arrive on time. If you arrive after the start time, the facilitator may not be able to admit you to the workshop.  
  • Please ensure that you can attend for the entire workshop – attendance will only be marked if you attend and participate fully. 

If you can no longer attend or wish to cancel your place on this event, you must do so via your My bookings page. Our cancellation policy will apply to late cancellations, or if you do not cancel and fail to attend the event.

If you have any queries or concerns regarding your participation in the workshop or have any requirements that we can support you with, please do not hesitate to contact the lead tutor. For more information, read our inclusivity statement.

 

Learning intended for

  • Pharmacy technicians