NHS Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacist Programme in the East of England
From 1st August 2015
Draft Content of residentials for discussion
INDUCTION
10-11 August 2015 at Selwyn College, Cambridge
Your Journey to registration
GPhC requirements:
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Performance Standards and Registration Assessment
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Reflective writing and Portfolio Building
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Building Professional Skills
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Clinical Audits
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Pharmaceutical calculations
Supporting you to achieve your goals:
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Integrated learning approach based on 4 interconnecting themes – Patient Care
pathways, Patient Safety, Essential skills for pharmacy professionals
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Content and format of residential study programme
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Blended learning approaches and Learning Support Tools
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Programme Handbook – to include section on Trainees in Difficulty
Suggestions/Comments
Residential 1 28 September – 1 October 2015 at Selwyn College, Cambridge
Patient-centred care pathways
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Primary Care – Community Pharmacy Services (MURs, NMS, advanced and enhanced
services) Public Health, Working with GP practices)
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Clinical Ward Pharmacy – Prioritisation skills, ADRs and Drug Interactions,
Interpreting blood results, Discharge Planning
Patient Safety/Risk Management
Principles of Clinical governance (from admission to discharge)
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Accuracy Checking and Clinical screening of prescriptions in hospital dispensaries and
community pharmacies
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Drug History Taking and Medicines Reconciliation
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Pharmacokinetics / Therapeutic Drug Monitoring for high risk medicines
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Dose adjustments in renal and hepatic disease
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Risk Management processes
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Pharmaceutical calculations
Skills for pharmacy professionals
 Legal and ethical frameworks in pharmacy practice
 Design of Clinical Audits
 Answering Medicine Information queries
Suggestions/Comments
Residential 2 23 -26 November 2015 at Colchester FC, Essex
Patient-centred care pathways
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Long-term conditions in both primary care and hospital-based settings:
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Cardiology patients
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Management of Diabetic patients
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Mental Health patients
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Patients with Respiratory Conditions
Primary Care patient pathways
o Management of Minor Ailments - Colds and flu; medicines use in pregnancy and
breast feeding, Emergency Hormonal Contraception
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Clinical Ward Pharmacy: The Surgical patient, Enteral feeds and PEGS
Patient Safety/Risk Management
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Principles of risk management
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Use of high risk medicines in practice
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Medicines use in the elderly and for children
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Use of Controlled Drugs in practice
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Clinical Trials principles and procedures
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Good manufacturing practice
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Pharmaceutical calculations
Skills for pharmacy professionals
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Professional decision making in pharmacy practice
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Resolving ethical dilemmas
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Updates in Pharmacy Law and regulation
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Progress with Clinical Audits
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Medicine Information queries
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First Aid course (St John’s Ambulance)
Suggestions/Comments
Residential 3 14 – 17 March 2016 at Luton, Bedfordshire
Patient-centred care pathways
 Primary Care
o Management of Minor Ailments: Skin and fungal conditions, Sexual Health,
Gastrointestinal conditions, Use of medicines in Children
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Working with GP practices – consultations and medication reviews
 Clinical Ward Pharmacy
o Use of medicines in hepatic disease,
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Pain management and palliative care
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Haematology
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Gastrointestinal medicine,
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Infections and antimicrobials
 Patient Safety/Risk Management
o Medicines use in Paediatrics and paediatric calculations
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Aseptic preparation of cytotoxic medicines
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Formulation (revision)
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IV additives and infusion fluids
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Neonatal TPN
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Use of unlicensed medicines
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Antibiotic resistance
Skills for pharmacy professionals
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Confidence in consultation skills
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Clinical decision making and Influencing prescribing
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Critical Appraisal and Research skills
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Supervisory and management skills
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Teaching others, Presentation skills, Conflict resolution
Suggestions/Comments
Residential 4 16 – 18 May 2016 at UEA, Norwich
General revision and mock assessments
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Management of a range of Minor Ailments (as defined in GPhC Syllabus)
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Legal and Ethical Frameworks in Pharmacy Practice
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OSCE scenario-based assessments
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Pharmaceutical calculations
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GPhC style Mock assessment
Suggestions/Comments
Audit report Conference – Day event on 25 May 2016 at Stansted Hilton
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Career presentations by pharmacists
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Oral and poster presentations by trainees
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Adjudication and awards
Suggestions/Comments