Poh Long

GP Practice Pharmacist

and

CPPE Regional Tutor (London) 21 September 2019

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About CPPE

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Types of learning

• Online (e-learning, e-courses, e-workshops, guides, PDFs)

• Face-to-face (Focal Point, Optimise, all day workshops)

• Assessments

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Primary Care Pharmacy(PCPEP)

Education Pathway

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Core features of clinical pharmacists in PCN roles

• Patient facing

• Part of a multidisciplinary team

• Independent prescribers

• Undertake clinical medication reviews and care management of patients with chronic diseases

• Address public health and social care needs

• Lead on person-centred medicines optimisation

• Support integration to improve quality of care and safety for patients

• Develop relationships with pharmacy professionals across the PCN and wider health and social care system

• Support other medicines related activities, such as research

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Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway

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Respiratory focus in long term plan

3.86 We will do more to support those with respiratory disease to receive and use the right medication

Pharmacists in PCN

• medicine reviews, educating patients on the correct use

of inhalers, contributing to MDS working

• support for patients - to reduce SABA use, switch to DPI

where appropriate

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CPPE resources for Respiratory • Asthma Focal Point - launched April 2019, workshops

running across England till September 2019

• COPD Focal Point - workshops available from March 2020

• Respiratory Clinical Gateway page

• Clinical medication review e-course (week 5 - respiratory)

• Respiratory clinical assessment skills - for pathway learners

Clinical gateway pages

• Learning arranged by topic

• Quiz to identify gaps

• Core to advanced learning

• External links

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Resources to improve inhaler technique

• Inhaler technique for health professionals: getting it right,

e-learning

• Inhaler technique training videos - links

• Inhaler technique workshop – recent design day to

develop a new learning event, to be piloted in September

and launched in January 2020

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