RPS Pharmacy Guides

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A

Administration of medicines

Adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) - schools

Aesthetics practice | policy

Amorolfine nail lacquer POM to P

Anti-malarial POM to P

Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship main page (AMR and AMS)

AMR and AMS Pharmacy guide - Top 10 ways you can fight AMR and promote safer antimicrobial use

Aseptic preparation services

Authorisation by a pharmacist - checked and bagged medicines


B

Becoming a prescriber

Black triangle 


C

Care homes - medicines | report

Care homes - working in

Career support 

Changing prescribing scope of practice

Checked and bagged items

Chemicals

Chief pharmacists

Chloramphenicol POM to P

Clarinaze allergy control POM to P

Clinical audit

Clinical check

Clinical documentation for pharmacists

Clinical governance

Clinical Pharmacy, Oxford Handbook | e-book

Competency framework - designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs)

Competency framework - prescribers

Common ailments

Common Ailments Service, Wales

Common clinical conditions service

Community pharmacy - preparing for day one

Compliance aids (MCA) best practice

Compounding sterile preparations | e-book

Confidence in consultation skills

Confidently prescribe

Consultation skills

Contraceptives POM to P

Controlled drugs - emergency supply

Controlled drugs - prescribing

Controlled drugs - requisitions

Controlled drugs - safe custody

Controlled drugs (CDs)

Controlled drugs - legal prescription requirements

Controlled drugs - instalment prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - dental prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - destruction

Controlled drugs  - private prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - repeat dispensing or repeat prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - technical errors

Controlled drugs  - veterinary prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) prescriptions

Counselling people on medicines

CPD records

CPD - e-portfolio


D

Daffodil standards for end of life care

Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy and Medicines Law | e-book

Designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) competency framework

Designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) - how to find

Desogestrel POM to P

Digital Skills and Capabilities

Drugs and driving


E

EEA and Swiss prescriptions

Emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) POM to P

Emergency supply

Enteral Feeding - drug administration | e-book

e-Portfolio - MyCPD

Error reporting standards

Errors

Estradiol vaginal tablet POM to P

Ethical and professional decision making

Ethics - prescribing

Expanding Prescribing Scope of Practice


F

Facilitated self-selection of P medicines

Fasting 

Finding a designated prescribing practitioner (DPP)

Fit notes

Funding (prescribing)

 


G

General practice pharmacist - repeat prescribing | position statement (Scotland)

GP practice - working in

Greener pharmacy


H

Herbal medicines

Homecare services standards

Homeopathy

Hospital - benchmarking

Hospital at home interim standards

Hospital pharmacy standards

Hospital pharmacy - preparing for day one


I

Inclusion and diversity - LGBTQIA+

Independent prescribers (IP) 

Injectable Drugs Handbook | e-book


JKL

Labelling of medicines

Lactation - drugs in | e-book

Laxatives - OTC stimulant laxatives in community

Leadership development framework

LGBTQIA+

Lidocaine GSL to P

Locum pharmacists


M

Managing conflict at work

Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry | e-book

Medical devices

Medication adherence

Medicines, Ethics and Practice (MEP)

Medication history

Medicines reconciliation and medication history

Multi-compartment compliance aids (MCAs) 

Medication review

Medicine shortages - community pharmacy

Medicine shortages - secondary care (England)

Medicines optimisation

Mentoring

Mometasone POM to P

MyCPD portfolio


N

Near misses - near miss errors

Neonatal Formulary | e-book

New medicines, better use of medicines

Newly qualified


O

Oral retinoids

Original pack dispensing

Orlistat POM to P


P

Palliative Care, Oxford Handbook | e-book

Patient safety professional standards: Responding to Patient Safety Incidents

Peer discussion

Penicillin allergy checklist

Personal Development Plan (PDP)

Pharmaceutical industry - preparing for day one

Pharmacist prescribers

Pharmacovigilance

Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics and AMS

Pharmacy First

Pharmacy First Plus

Podiatrists - supply of medicines

Poisons and chemicals

Polypharmacy

POM to P changes

Pregnancy - drugs in | e-book

Pharmacy registration assessment questions | e-book

Pre-Registration trainees (now known as Trainee Pharmacists)

Prescribers

Prescriber - aspiring

Prescriber - trainee and newly qualified checklist

Prescribing - Non-Medical Prescribing Textbook | e-book

Prescribing - remote

Prescribing competency framework

Prescribing ethics

Prescribing funding

Prescribing Medicines for Children | e-book

Prescribing resources

Prescribing - return to practice

Prisons standards

Professional judgement

Professional standards

Provisional registration

Provisional registration - e-Portfolio

Pseudoephedrine & ephedrine

Psychiatry prescribing | e-book

Psychopharmacology | e-book

Putting the patient first: how pharmacy can get it right


Q

Quality assurance of aseptic preparation services (QAAPS)


R

Raising concerns - whistleblowing

Ramadan - fasting

Reclassification

Reducing workplace pressure through professional empowerment

Reflective account

Remote prescribing

Renal Drug Handbook | e-book

Repeat prescribing toolkit

Research and evaluation

Resources - prescribing

Responsible pharmacist

Retinoids and pregnancy

Return to practice

Returning to pharmacy practice

Revalidation


S

Safe and secure handling of medicines

Safeguarding - children and young people

Safeguarding - vulnerable adults

Safely prescribe

Salbutamol inhalers - schools

Secure environments standards

Self-selection of P medicines

Sildenafil POM to P

Smoking cessation services - audit

Specials

Standards

Sumatriptan POM to P

Symptoms in the pharmacy | e-book


TU

Tadalafil POM to P

Trainee Pharmacists

Tranexamic acid POM to P) 

Transfer of care 

Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations | e-book

Tutoring

Type 2 diabetes - using pharmacists to help improve care | policy


V

Valproate and the Pregnancy Prevention Programme

Vet - medicines 

Vet - cascade

Vet - prescriptions

Vet - controlled drugs


W

Waste medicines | audit

Wellbeing

Welsh language (and the Welsh version of the page: yr iaith Gymraeg)

Whistleblowing

Women's health

Working as a locum

Workplace pressure


XYZ

Yellow card scheme

Yr iaith Gymraeg