By Helen Chang, RPS Associate Director of Education and Professional Development

Investing time in active lifelong learning is more essential than ever. Lifelong learning enables pharmacists to enhance their expertise, apply new evidence, adopt innovative technologies, and respond effectively to emerging health and care priorities, ultimately to deliver safe and effective care to their patients and the public. However, more than that, it reflects a deeper commitment to continuously developing ourselves so we can adapt to change, support our colleagues, and build a profession that’s flexible and more prepared for the future.

At the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, education and professional development sit at the heart of our purpose. We are committed to helping members achieve excellence and grow throughout their careers, through the provision of learning that is practical, relevant, and designed to meet real-world needs.

We’re proud to have launched RPS Learn, a new platform bringing together all our learning content in one place. Developed with the profession, for the profession, it offers bite-sized learning to support pharmacists at every stage of their journey, whether you are consolidating core knowledge and skills, preparing for new opportunities, or expanding into new areas of practice.

Looking ahead, lifelong learning will remain a cornerstone of our work. We’ll continue to grow our learning offer, with content that’s accessible and inclusive, and designed for different learning styles and needs. We’ll use insights and innovative approaches to bring our members engaging content across clinical practice, professional skills, leadership, management, education, and research and evaluation. In 2025, we’ll have new content in the areas of women’s health, cancer care, mentoring and prescribing practice. We are also collaborating with several specialist interest groups to develop exciting learning modules to support clinical areas of practice.

I encourage you to explore RPS Learn and take the next step in your professional development. We also want to hear from you - your ideas, your needs, your preferences for learning. If you have suggestions for future content, please complete our content suggestion form. Together, we’ll shape learning that supports the profession to advance and reach excellence.

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