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 - Face to face and remote
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 COVID-19
 Culturally competent person-centred care
 Education
 Environmental sustainability
 General practice
 Genomics
 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
 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
 Nutrition, medicines and myths: evolution of pharmacy practice
 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
 Menopause
 Oral health
 Sexual health
 Smoking
 Substance misuse
 Weight management
 Women's Health

Learning programmes and assessments

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Primary care pharmacy essential skills - residential workshop (Days 1 and 2)


  • Released: 08/2019
  • Reviewed: 08/2023
  • Study time: 8h:0m
  • Standard price: £250.00
  • NHS England-funded price: £0.00
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This residential workshop is only for pharmacy professionals who are taking part in Primary care pharmacy education pathway.

This two-day residential workshop is part of four days covering essential topics for pharmacy professionals working in primary care. It will help you develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to optimise medicines use in primary care networks and develop your role in primary care. It is intended for those new to the role and those with experience of working in primary care.

You need to attend all four days to complete the module.

This is a residential workshop, so CPPE will provide dinner and your overnight accommodation between days 1 and 2. This means you are ready to begin day 2 at 8:30am and gives you the opportunity to get to know your colleagues on the pathway.

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Learning outcomes

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

Day 1

  • describe the background to the Primary care education pathway and explain the benefits and challenges for the programme
  • explain what the role of the pharmacy professional undertaking medicines optimisation involves
  • identify stakeholders and consider how to engage with the multidisciplinary team
  • describe the context that healthcare professionals work within in primary care networks
  • apply essential skills in transfer of care issues, medicines reconciliation, responding to patient safety alerts and incident reporting
  • identify and prioritise patient groups for clinical pharmacy professional review.

Day 2

  • document answers to medicines-related questions
  • apply a structured approach to medicines reconciliation
  • identify people who are at increased risk of falls and fractures
  • undertake person-centred medication reviews
  • assess the safety and clinical appropriateness of medicines in frail older people
  • implement guidance on appropriate prescribing of oral nutritional supplements
  • advise on the administration of medicines in people with swallowing difficulties.

How to use this programme

When you book onto this workshop you will be able to access the resources that you need to complete your learning. If there is a pre-workshop book associated with your workshop, then this will be sent to you in the post and you will also be able to download it in PDF form.

At the workshop your facilitator will provide any materials for you to refer to and complete during the event.

Learning intended for

  • Pharmacists
  • Pharmacy technicians