Pharmacy Guides (by theme)

 

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Ordered by theme

Career and professional development (including leadership and management)

Aesthetics practice | policy

Becoming a prescriber

Care homes - medicines | report

Care homes - working in

Career support

Chief pharmacists

Community pharmacy - preparing for day one

Competency framework for all prescribers

CPD records

Designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) competency framework

Designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) - how to find

Expanding prescribing scope of practice

Foundation Pharmacists

Frameworks

Funding (prescribing)

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

GP practice - working in

Hospital pharmacy - preparing for day one

Independent prescribers

Leadership development framework

Locum pharmacists

Managing conflict at work

Mentoring

Newly qualified – Pharmacist

Newly qualified – Prescriber

MyCPD portfolio

Peer discussion

Personal development plan (PDP)

Pharmaceutical industry - preparing for day one

Pharmacist prescribing

Pharmacy registration assessment questions | e-book

Pre-registration trainees (now known as Foundation Pharmacists)

Prescribing competency framework

Prescribing funding

Professional empowerment

Professional judgement

Professional standards

Putting the patient first: how pharmacy can get it right

Reducing workplace pressure through professional empowerment

Reflective account

Resources - prescribing

Return to pharmacy practice

Return to prescribing

Revalidation

Training 

Tutoring

Wellbeing

Workplace pressure

Professional practice

Administration of medicines

Aseptic preparation services

Authorisation by a pharmacist - checked and bagged medicines

Chemicals

Clinical documentation for pharmacists

Common ailments

Common Ailments Service, Wales

Common clinical conditions service

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) prescription

Daffodil standards for end of life care

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

Drugs and driving

EEA and Swiss prescriptions

Emergency supply

Ethical and professional decision making

Ethics prescribing

Errors – how to deal with them professionally

Fit notes

Greener pharmacy

Homecare services standards

Hospital at home interim standards

Herbal medicines

Homeopathy

Hospital benchmarking

Hospital pharmacy standards

Hospital at home standards

Labelling of dispensed medicines

LGBTQIA+ inclusion and diversity

Managing conflict at work

Medical devices

Medicine shortages community pharmacy

Medicine shortages secondary care (England)

Medicines, Ethics and Practice (MEP)

Near misses

Patient Safety Standards: Responding to Patient Safety Incidents

Pharmacy First, England

Pharmacy First Plus, Scotland

Podiatrists – supply of medicines

Prisons standards

Professional judgement

Professional standards

Quality assurance of aseptic preparation services (QAAPS)

Raising concerns whistleblowing

Remote prescribing

Repeat medicines

Repeat prescribing toolkit

Responsible pharmacist

Safe and secure handling of medicines

Salbutamol inhalers – schools

Secure environments standards

Specials

Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations | e-book

Veterinary medicines 

Welsh language

Whistleblowing

Yellow card scheme

Clinical practice and patient-centred care (including patient safety and medicines safety)

Administration of medicines

Adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs)

Adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) – schools

Amorolfine POM to P

Anti-malarials POM to P

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) & Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS)

ASHP Injectable Drug Information | e-book

Black triangle

Chloramphenicol POM to P

Clarinaze allergy control POM to P

Clinical audit

Clinical check

Clinical governance

Clinical Pharmacy, Oxford Handbook | e-book

Common clinical conditions service

Compliance aids (MCA) best practice

Compounding sterile preparations | e-book

Confidence in consultation skills

Contraceptive POM to P

Counselling people on medicines

Desogestrel POM to P

Drugs and driving

Emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) POM to P

Enteral Feeding – drug administration | e-book

Error reporting standards

Errors and near miss errors

Estradiol vaginal tablet POM to P

Facilitated self-selection of P medicines

Fasting

Fasting and medicine use

Handling of medicines in social care

Lactation – drugs in | e-book

Laxatives – OTC stimulant laxatives in community

Lidocaine GSL to P

Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry | e-book

Medication history

Medication review

Medicine shortages – community pharmacy

Medicine shortages – secondary care (England)

Medicines adherence

Medicines optimisation

Mometasone POM to P

Multi-compartment compliance aids (MCAs) 

Near miss errors

Neonatal Formulary | e-book

New medicines, better use of medicines

Original pack dispensing (OPD)

Orlistat POM to P

Palliative Care, Oxford Handbook | e-book

Patient consultations

Patient Safety Standards - Responding to Patient Safety Incidents

Penicillin allergy checklist

Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics and AMS

Pharmacovigilance

Pharmacy alerts

Polypharmacy

POM to P changes

Pregnancy drugs in | e-book

Prescribing

Prescribing – Non-Medical Prescribing Textbook | e-book

Prescribing competency framework

Prescribing Medicines for Children | e-book

Prescribing safely and confidently

Pseudoephedrine & ephedrine

Psychiatry prescribing | e-book

Psychopharmacology | e-book

Ramadan and medicine use

Reclassification

Renal Drug Handbook | e-book

Reporting adverse events

Retinoids and pregnancy

Retinoids and the Pregnancy Prevention Programme

Safe and secure handling of medicines

Safeguarding – children and young people

Sildenafil POM to P

Smoking cessation services  audit

Social care  medicines in

Sumatriptan POM to P

Symptoms in the pharmacy | e-book

Tadalafil POM to P 

Tranexamic acid POM to P 

Transfer of care

Valproate and the Pregnancy Prevention Programme

Virtual wards standards

Waste medicines | audit

Welsh language

Women's health

Yellow card scheme

Research Skills

Research and evaluation guide - the full guide covers:

  • Clinical audit
  • Introduction to Research
  • Turning your ideas into a research project
  • Research funding
  • Research methods
  • Reporting, publishing, dissemination and communication