Education

Efficiency

Generic actions to reduce errors

Medicines often have similar sounding names and similar looking packaging, particularly generics. Make sure you don't get caught out.

07 Feb 2019 , 5 Min Article

Business environment

Knowing me, knowing you

What makes one pharmacy different from others? Understanding consumer loyalty can help, and a net promoter score is one way to measure it

05 Feb 2019 , 2 Min Article

Eyes & ears

Unblock the route to ear and sinus health

Its not just noses and throats that prompt customers to visit a pharmacy in the winter months. Ears and sinuses can be just as problematic.

01 Feb 2019 , 2 Min Article

Nutrition & weight management

Weighty matters

Help customers shed a few pounds and achieve a healthy lifestyle

23 Jan 2019 , 4 Min Article

Public health

Key clinical developments in 2018

This module will provide community pharmacists with an overview of the major developments in pharmacy practice during 2018.

22 Jan 2019 , 900 Min Module

Multiple sclerosis: an overview

This module is about multiple sclerosis and identifying the symptoms.

22 Jan 2019 , 900 Min Module

CPD module: Smoking cessation

How can community pharmacists help people to quit smoking?

17 Jan 2019 , 900 Min Module

Scenario: Delivery drivers

Parveen's dispensing assistant asks about her husband standing in as a delivery driver.

14 Jan 2019 , 1 Min Article

Mental health

Help, not harm: spotting the perils of self-harm

Would you recognise the signs if a young person were self-harming? And if you did, would you know what to do next?

13 Dec 2018 , 3 Min Article

Eyes & ears

Ear care: A guide for pharmacy teams

How can pharmacy teams help customers manage hearing loss and other ear conditions?

13 Dec 2018 , 6 Min Article

Heart health

Pharmacy's role in vascular disease

Community pharmacists could do significantly more to improve vascular health says Professor David Taylor

07 Dec 2018 , 2 Min Article

Substance misuse

Scenario: Travelling with CDs

Parveen is giving Graeme Alton his methadone instalments for the weekend. He tells her he is planning a holiday in Egypt...

05 Dec 2018 , 1 Min Article

Older people's health

Social prescribing and pharmacy: a natural fit?

There is a growing sense that social prescribing is an idea whose time has come – so what do pharmacists need to know?

29 Nov 2018 , 2 Min Article

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Medication safety

Antimicrobial stewardship

This module will consider the role of community pharmacy teams in tackling antimicrobial resistance

26 Nov 2018 , 900 Min Module

Men's health

Men's health: An uphill struggle

At a time when weâ€™re supposedly more health aware than ever before, what could be causing men to neglect their health?

26 Nov 2018 , 6 Min Article

Asthma & COPD

Report: Could the end of smoking be in sight?

The Government is aiming for a smoke-free generation – and there are plenty of promising therapeutic options under evaluation

19 Nov 2018 , 6 Min Article

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