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Training offers for Pharmacy Technicians
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Our training has been developed to support the development of a person-centred pharmacy technician workforce, ready to work across a range of healthcare settings.
Funded training is available for pharmacy technicians, to help them provide high quality, patient-focused medicines optimisation across all sectors, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
The NHS extends a big thank you to those community pharmacists who have engaged with the ProPharmace training.
Access to clinical, education and prescribing supervision is a key challenge facing the pharmacy workforce.
NHS England provided two fully funded supervisor training programmes, delivered by ProPharmace. The training ensured those involved in education supervision, including designated supervisors and designated prescribing practitioners, were confident to provide support and developmental aid to the pharmacy workforce.
This training supported pharmacy technicians to develop the knowledge and clinical skills required to deliver highly effective clinical services in community pharmacy and was delivered by CPPE. This training enabled pharmacy technicians to support clinical service expansion and increase patient access to clinical services.
The training was available as several modules and flexible in its design, to accommodate the working patterns of pharmacy technicians in community pharmacy.
The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) are working on behalf of NHS England to deliver training to pharmacy professionals working in primary care as part of the primary care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
The CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway aligns the education requirements of the pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with the NHS Long Term Plan and the primary care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service.
The pathway is designed to equip pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to work in various patient-facing roles in primary care networks as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to access a range of different study methods to suit different learning styles, a continuous assessment process and support from supervisors and peers.
The pathway is 15-months for pharmacy technicians. To find out more visit the CPPE webpages.