Pharmacy quality scheme : CPPE

Pharmacy Quality Scheme

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Healthy living support domain

The learning and assessment for this domain is linked to one quality criterion:

Weight management

The elements of the Weight management criterion that relate to learning and assessment are:

By the end of 31 March 2023, all non-registered patient-facing pharmacy staff who provide health advice working in the pharmacy on the day of declaration must have satisfactorily completed, within the last four years (between 1 April 2019 and end of 31 March 2023), the All Our Health bitesize training and assessments on adult obesity and childhood obesity, to gain a broader understanding of the causes and effects of obesity.
By the end of 31 March 2023, all registered pharmacy professionals working at the pharmacy on the day of declaration must have satisfactorily completed, within the last four years (between 1 April 2019 and end of 31 March 2023), sections 1 and 3 of the CPPE Weight management for adults: understanding the management of obesity e-learning and e-assessment.

Completing the learning and assessment detailed here does not mean that your pharmacy is entitled to a PQS payment for the Healthy living support domain. Contractors need to ensure that they meet all elements of this domain, as well as the gateway criteria, to be eligible to claim for the maximum points for the Healthy living support domain when they make their PQS declaration.

Click on the items in the dropdown menu below to learn more about the learning and assessment that you need to complete, to work towards the criterion listed above.

All Our Health: bitesize training and assessments on Adult Obesity and Childhood Obesity – all non-registered patient-facing pharmacy staff who provide health advice

Weight management for adults: understanding the management of obesity – all registered pharmacy professionals

Obesity is a major public health problem, due to its association with serious chronic diseases. Pharmacy professionals are in a position to support people to achieve weight loss and improve their health.

Step 1 - e-learning

Access the CPPE Weight management for adults: understanding the management of obesity e-learning programme and work through:

Section 1 – What is overweight and obesity and why is it a public health problem?
Section 3 – Patient journeys.

Section 2 of the e-learning focusses specifically on providing a weight management service in practice. You may want to work through this section to further your understanding, but this is not required in order to achieve this quality criterion.

Access the CPPE Weight management for adults: understanding the management of obesity e-learning

Step 2 - e-assessment

This assessment supports sections 1 and 3 of the Weight management for adults: understanding the management of obesity e-learning programme. As with all assessments, we recommend that you complete the learning before attempting the e-assessment (you are required to complete the e-learning and e-assessment to meet the requirements for PQS). To meet the PQS requirements, you do not need to complete section 2 of the e-learning to gain the knowledge required to pass this e-assessment.

When you have passed the e-assessment, you will be able to download a certificate of achievement from your learning record, or via the tracker on the PQS home page (click on the ‘Home’ button at the top of this page).

Access the e-assessment

You may also find it useful to access NICE clinical guideline [CG189] Obesity: identification, assessment and management, updated 8 September 2022, to support your practice.

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