PRIMARY CARE
Pharmacy Professionals
Clinical pharmacists are increasingly working as part of general practice teams. They are highly qualified experts in medicines and can help people in a range of ways. This includes carrying out structured medication reviews for patients with ongoing health problems and improving patient safety, outcomes and value through a person-centred approach (NHSE).
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Clinical Pharmacists Explained
What's happening
Resources & Videos
The NHS Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) is a community pharmacist led clinical service which has been managing referrals from NHS111 since 2019. GP practices can also refer patients contacting them with minor illness symptoms for a same day consultation with a community pharmacist, using the referral pathway to the CPCS.
Catch up on this webinar hosted by the Royal College of General Practitioners, featuring an expert panel of speakers with a discussion on how the CPCS works and how it supports general practice. You can also access the CPCS FutureNHS workspace to find support with implementing the referral pathway.
As outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS should make more appropriate use of pharmacy professionals’ clinical skills, helping patients get the right care, at the right time, in the right place.
HEE’s work aims to deliver a more responsive pharmacy workforce, equipped with the skills to deliver a clinical service across all care settings, and adapted to new ways of working.
The NHS England Newly Qualified Pharmacist pathway aims to link the initial education and training reforms to a continuum of development into post-registration. The pathway is intended to help pharmacists make the transition to more independent learning and acts as a stepping-stone towards enhanced and advanced practice.
For more information and to watch an Information Session for Learners please visit NHS England – Workforce Training and Education
Community Pharmacy
HEE are pleased to announce new, fully funded, NHS clinical examination skills training for community pharmacists.
This new offer will build on community pharmacists’ existing clinical examination and consultation skills – to assess, treat and manage common health problems.
10,000 module places will be available until March 2024.
Sign up now for Clinical examination skills training, which will be delivered by CliniSkills.
About the training: Following completion of a pre-required, online gateway module on history taking and identification of serious conditions, pharmacists can choose their preferred journey through four optional modules, based on professional interests. These modules cover four key themes: dermatology, cardiology, paediatrics, and ear, nose and throat.
The module content will be delivered online using a flexible and responsive eLearning system, with optional face-to-face attendance for pharmacists who would find this beneficial. Pharmacists can complete the training at a pace and time of their choice. Face-to-face workshops will be scheduled to accommodate pharmacist working patterns.
The training is designed to be complementary to independent prescribing training and can be completed prior to or after independent prescribing training courses.
Who is eligible: This offer is available to community pharmacists, including part time staff and locums working in community pharmacy.
Further information
To register and find out more about the training visit the CliniSkills website.
To find out more about the Pharmacy Integration Programme, visit the Health Education England website.
For any further enquiries, please contact [email protected]
Pharmacy technicians are valued and important members of the primary care pharmacy workforce. In these short podcast episodes, pharmacy technicians talk about the variety of roles and opportunities for the profession, and the contribution they make to patient care. Topics discussed include leadership, pharmacy technician run clinics and phlebotomy services in primary care, and pharmacy technician support for structured medication reviews.
The community pharmacy workforce survey is an annual survey that strengthens the visibility of pharmacy workforce data within the community pharmacy sector.
The 2024 Survey launched on 16 October 2024 and will close on 11 December 2024.
Check out NHSE’s Clinical Pharmacists page for information on:
- Support for recruitment and employment
- About clinical pharmacists
- Pilot site external evaluation, Case studies
- Blogs
Guidance for community pharmacy contractors on the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2022/23 has now been published. PQS commenced on 10 October 22 as part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework agreement.
The guidance explains how contractors can meet the gateway and quality criteria. To qualify for the PQS 22/23 payment, contractors will have to make a declaration between 9:00 on 6 February 2023 and 23:59 on 3 March 2023 and meet all gateway criteria by the end of 31 March 2023.
Sign up to receive the new bi-annual Inclusive Pharmacy Practice (IPP) bulletin, which highlights examples of community pharmacy and primary care good practice.
NHSE Pharmacy Foundation Training Update
Prescribing Placement Opportunity
To support Community Trainee Pharmacists
The Pharmacist undergraduate training now includes new learning outcomes which enable newly qualified Pharmacists to be Independent Prescribers at the point of registration.
The Training Hub is looking for Independent Prescribers to support a 6-8 week (or alternative) placement for a Foundation year trainee from the Community Pharmacy Sector.
Expected financial renumeration – circa £1000 to £1500.
Please view the following slides and PDF for more information Supporting prescribing rotations / Information for General Practice & PCNs L&SC
For support at a local level (Practice/PCNs) please contact [email protected]
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