SUPPORT SERVICES
Here are just a few examples of the type of queries the RPS Support Service has helped to answer:
SUPPORTING COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS PROVIDES
Our Professional Support Team: A CONFIDENTIAL ENQUIRY SERVICE
We get thousands of enquiries a year 47%
OUR MOST COMMON COMMUNITY PHARMACY RELATED ENQUIRIES ARE:
3 INSTALMENT
AUDIT ETHICAL
DECISION MAKING
PRESCRIPTIONS PGDCPD
INDEPENDENT PRESCRIBING LEGAL CLASSIFICATION
RAISING CONCERNS EEA PRESCRIPTIONS
Our practical resources and guidance relevant to community pharmacists have been viewed
in the last 12 months ver 160,000 times
ur online community Pharmacy Hub enables you to find everything you need, all in one place!
SPECIALS GUIDANCE RETURN TO PRACTICE
MULTI-COMPARTMENT COMPLIANCE AIDS
FOREIGN DRUGS ID
of which come from community pharmacists
LEGAL AND ETHICAL
21%
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
20%
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
We continually UPDATE and DEVELOP new resources to support community pharmacists
most viewed 3
community pharmacist resources: MEP
Controlled Drugs
51,724 4,923
compartment compliance aids
7,785 Multi-
We publish regular SUPPORT ALERTS... 78 alerts in the
Do you want support with your professional development and access to our confidential enquiry service?
about one quarter relate to professional development.
Certainly, we have queries from pharmacists, who may be just starting out in their career, or have only been working for a few years. They will mainly be interested in legal/ ethical issues or in clinical aspects of pharmacy, such as tablet identification, or foreign medicines. But we also have to be mindful that there are a lot of pharmacists, particularly female pharmacists, who may be returning to practice after some time out of
last 12 months!
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the profession. These pharmacists may be either returning to a familiar role, or moving into a different area of practice. If they have been out of practice for a long period of time, they need to be brought up to date with developments and perhaps different ways of working. There is a whole plethora of issues that need looked at – and that’s where we come in!
Our team is able to advise our callers not only on how they can successfully meet their professional obligations, but can support them as they develop
their role on their chosen path. In a way, we also act as a ‘helping hand’ to help them to build their confidence on their return to pharmacy practice. On a purely practical front, we can help them to identify the gaps in their knowledge and skills, and devise a personal development plan to address those gaps.
For those pharmacists, who have remained in practice, there’s always the issue of continuing professional development and our advisors are always there to provide advice and
PHARMACY PRACTICE
17%
• Can a physiotherapist independent prescriber prescribe morphine?
• A patient has been prescribed isotretinoin, she is on the pregnancy prevention programme – prescription is for two months’ treatment, can I make the supply?
• Can a police officer collect a dose of methadone on a patient’s behalf if they are in custody? The dose is usually supervised.
• Can an ACT check prescriptions for Controlled Drugs?
• What is the legal classification of esketamine?
• I’m currently working as a community pharmacist but would like to change to working in the hospital sector - how can I prepare for this?
• I’m currently working as a community pharmacist in England but am hoping to move to Scotland and work there, what do I need to do to prepare?
• I want to return to practice after being off the register for ten years, what do I need to do?
• How do I get started with the Faculty?
• Do we have any examples of Faculty entries that I could look at?
support on recording CPD entries.
To help signpost more pharmacists to our support services, we recently published two infographic type flyers to illustrate clearly to pharmacists – both currently in and out of practice – exactly what is available to them – whether in community or hospital pharmacy, and we hope that pharmacists will find them useful.
CONTACT DETAILS
Tel: 0845 257 2570 9am-5pm Mon-Fri or email
support@rpharms.com
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