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Community Pharmacists
Community pharmacists 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. This offer is now closed. Access to learning materials will remain open to existing learners until 1 August 2024 and those still engaged are encouraged to complete their learning programme.
- Independent Prescribing - Delivered by approved education providers
- Education Supervisor Training for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians - Delivered by ProPharmace
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The NHS extends a big thank you to those community pharmacists who have engaged with the CliniSkills training.
The range of training targeted hands-on clinical examination skills that are vital for community pharmacists to confidently assess patients’ clinical signs and symptoms when managing clinical cases routinely presenting to community pharmacies each day. A flexible and responsive on-line eLearning system has been successful in presenting key information in a way that can be interfaced with a busy working schedule. These principles were supported with the opportunity to undertake face to face training days, enabling hands-on practise and refinement of patient assessment techniques.
Material in on-line modules included structured history taking, dermatology, cardiology (segmented into the 5 key subjects), ENT and paediatrics, and focused on identifying red flags for referral and establishing those patients who can be managed appropriately in the community pharmacy using medications, self-care advice and safety netting information.
In this way the CliniSkills training programme has supported the clinical development of community pharmacists, which is key to the future delivery of expanding pharmaceutical care services in the community and in particular the successful delivery of the "Pharmacy First" initiative.
We are now evaluating the detail of the successes of the training in terms of how community pharmacists were supported and developed and will release findings with our partner, Cliniskills; this evidence base will then be used to inform future developments.
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 those in educational supervision roles, including Designated Supervisors (DSs) and Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs).
- Community pharmacists can apply for the educational supervisor training.
- Any independent prescriber can apply for the DPP training.
NHS funding will cover all course fees.