Communication toolkit for employers
This is a communication toolkit for community pharmacy employers
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Community Pharmacy Training LIVE NOW
Community pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are being offered a range of fully-funded, flexible training to expand your clinical skills and improve patient care. Courses currently include:
- Clinical Examination Training Skills - Delivered by CliniSkills
- Independent Prescribing - Delivered by approved education providers
- Pharmacy Technicians: Advancing your role - Delivered by CPPE
- Education Supervisor Training for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians - Delivered by ProPharmace
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Flexible training tailored to your skills, experience and individual learning requirements. Complete the gateway module in approximately 1 hour online, followed by one or more specialist modules of either:
- Paediatrics (live now)
- Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) (live now)
- Cardiology (live now)
- Dermatology two-part module:
- Wound Care (live now)
- Skin Presentations and Changes (expected December)
More information on each module is available here.
Optional in-person, practical training sessions are also available.
NHS funding will cover all course fees.
LIVE NOW: ENT, Cardiology, Paediatrics and Dermatology module 1
Training to support patients from diagnosis to prescribing, providing advice and follow-up, and preparing to provide clinical care.
NHS funding will cover all course fees.
Cohorts available in October 2023, January, February and March 2024
New, flexible, fully-funded training to help registered community pharmacy technicians to develop the knowledge and clinical skills to deliver more clinical services and take on more responsibility in managing dispensing activity. The programme launches on 28 September. Registration is open now and more information is available here.
New, flexible, fully funded training to help those involved in educational supervision roles for the community pharmacy workforce, including Designated Supervisors (DSs) and Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs).
- Both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can apply for the educational supervisor training.
- Any independent prescriber can apply for the DPP training.
NHS funding will cover all course fees.