Pharmacotherapy and Service Development

This programme aims to equip pharmacists and other health-care professionals with the skills and knowledge to contribute effectively to medicines management services and to individual drug therapy decisions in primary and secondary care.

The curriculum relates to practice throughout, with emphasis on the contribution of medicines management techniques to acute and chronic disease management. Its structure and content enable students to incorporate their learning directly into their workplace and to rise to the challenges presented by the new patient-centred NHS, including skills related to services.

This programme offers the student a flexible approach to the accumulation of credits through a short course pathway.

Content

• Patients as Partners AND/OR Advanced Medication Review (15/25 credits)

Options from a range that currently includes:

• Skills for the MURs - Practice Certificate in Medicines Use Review (5 credits)
• Skills for the Future - Practice Certificate in Medicines Use Review in Practice (5 credits)
• Patient Monitoring in Practice - Practice Certificate (10 credits)
• Minor Ailments - Service Development (10 credits)
• Minor Ailments - Infections and Infestations (10 credits)
• Minor Ailments - Pain (5 credits)
• Practice Certificate in Hypertension (5 credits)
• Practice Certificate in Type 2 Diabetes (5 credits)
• Practice Certificate in Obesity and Impaired Glucose Tolerance (5 credits)
• Practice Certificate in Asthma (5 credits)
• Practice Certificate in Pharmacy Management (10 credits)
• Practice Certificate in Public Health (5 credits)