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
 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
 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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e-course

Preparing to train as an independent prescriber


  • Released: 08/2023
  • Reviewed: N/A
  • Start date: Anytime
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The aim of this e-course is to build the confidence and competence of pharmacists who are planning to train as independent prescribers.

Pharmacists on the Primary care pharmacy education pathway (PCPEP) are not able to book this learning, since the pathway prepares pharmacists to train as an independent prescriber.

PLEASE NOTE: You will need to book a place on the mandatory workshop before you can access the e-couse.  You can do that through the course dates tab on this webpage Preparing to train as an independent prescriber : CPPE

 

This programme is not openly available, please see the details above.

Learning outcomes

Once you have identified your own personal learning needs through completion of the self-assessment framework, the different topic areas in this programme will support you to:   

  • describe how your knowledge, skills and experience have evolved since your initial training as a pharmacist. 
  • recognise your strengths and transferable skills to build on relevant to your independent prescribing training.
  • identify your learning needs, resources, and learning opportunities to enable you to meet them.
  • develop your skills as a reflective practitioner and apply these to your practice.
  • build a powerful personal and professional support network to support you during your independent prescribing training and ongoing prescribing practice.
  • create a personal development plan for your short, medium and longer-term development needs to prepare for undertaking an independent prescribing course.

How to use this programme

We run our e-courses online in Canvas. After booking, if you have not used Canvas before 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. In Canvas there will be a menu on the left for navigating through each area, so that you can access each unit and its content separately.

Learning intended for

  • Pharmacists