Patient requests an OTC medicine
Delivering the right advice about over-the-counter (OTC) medicines is an important part of community pharmacy practice and applies to the whole pharmacy team. Working through this challenge will help you to reflect on your current practice and support you in making appropriate OTC medicines choices for patients and providing the right advice.Click here for your next step.
Patient presents with a new prescription
Working through this challenge will help you to support patients in managing their newly prescribed medicines by providing advice and information to engage patients in shared decision-making with the aim of improving adherence.Click here for your next step.
Communication with the GP or other Healthcare professional
Working through this challenge will help you to establish and build effective working relationships with GPs and other healthcare professionals by acting on and responding to queries appropriately, communicating effectively to promote services and work in collaboration.Click here for your next step.
Responding to patients' queries about long term conditions or medicines
The pharmacy is the most accessible source of medicines information on the highstreet. Working through this challenge will help you respond appropriately to patient queries about their long term conditions and the medicines they take to manage these.Click here for your next step.
Patient self care and public health advice
Delivering public health advice is an essential service for all pharmacies. Working through this challenge will help you to effectively support patients with self care and advise them about making healthy lifestyle choices to help prevent or manage long-term conditions.Click here for your next step.
Therapeutic challenge and prescription intervention
Sometimes it can be difficult to keep up to speed with the new medicines which are developed and the new information that comes to light from evidence base about the existing ones. Working through this challenge will help you become more confident in your knowledge around drug interactions, adverse drug reactions and the policy and guidance which guides prescribing decisions.Click here for your next step.
Public engagement outside the pharmacy
The role of the pharmacy now extends beyond the pharmacy itself with service provision to care homes and patients in their own homes, talking to patient groups and supporting carers. Working through this challenge will help you to think of new and innovative ways of engaging with patients, the public and other healthcare professionals outside the pharmacy.Click here for your next step.
Communication with the GP or other Healthcare professional
Working through this challenge will help you to establish and build effective working relationships with GPs and other healthcare professionals by acting on and responding to queries appropriately, communicating effectively to promote services and work in collaboration.Click here for your next step.
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