CPD Giovanna DiTano
Since qualifying in Pharmacy in 1982 from Strathclyde University, I have to date, worked in community pharmacy. After moving to Edinburgh in 1985, I have juggled work whilst being a wife and a mother to three daughters. Latterly in 2010 I took up the post of lead pharmacist for smoking cessation within NHS Lothian, supplying training and guidance for 183 pharmacies. More recently, I have taken on the role of pharmacy champion for Midlothian.
31 VARENICLINE (CHAMPIX): ITS PLACE IN COMMUNITY PHARMACY
KEEPING A RECORD OF YOUR CPD
Patients, the public and the government expect that every pharmacy professional maintains their professional capability throughout their career.
Keeping a record of your CPD enables you to confirm that you are meeting these expectations. It also helps you to retain and build your confidence as a professional and provides evidence that you meet the GPhC’s CPD requirement. You must do the following:
• Keep a legible record of your CPD - either online at
uptodate.org.uk, on a desktop computer, or on paper. It needs to be in a format published or approved by the GPhC, carrying the CPD-approved logo (Update: The paper submission facility has been withdrawn from the regular methods for submission of CPD entries, with effect from January 2016. If you are asked to submit your CPD entries in the 2015-16 Call and Review cycle, and you have exceptional circumstances which prevent you from submitting online, you may be eligible to submit by paper. If this is the case and you have been called to submit, please contact us after considering the other submission adjustments available to you. On paper, provided that the format has been approved by the GPhC).
• Make a minimum of nine CPD entries per year for each full year of registration, or the date you joined the register (whichever is later), or the date you last submitted CPD records as part of a Call and Review request, that reflect the context and scope of your practice as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician.
• Keep a CPD record that complies with the good practice criteria for CPD recording published in the GPhC’s requirements for undertaking and recording CPD
• Record how your CPD has contributed to the quality or development of your practice using the GPhC CPD framework. • Submit your CPD record to the GPhC when requested.
BACKGROUND HISTORY TO SMOKING CESSATION
Tobacco is the largest preventable cause of death in our nation, to that end Scotland has a vision of making smoking unfashionable, with the view that fewer than five per cent of the entire population will still be smoking by 2034.
The diagram below shows the timeline of smoking prevalence in Britain as a whole, since the late nineties, highlighting key milestones and initiatives, which have affected the outcome of the smoking population for the better.
Pharmacy is at the heart of our communities, promoting health
and wellness; we are best placed to make a marked improvement in the health of the nation in this field, as we have the knowledge, resources and are conveniently placed in local neighbourhoods making us accessible to our patients.
Pharmacists and their supporting staff are at the front line to encourage patients to take a look at the reasons why they smoke and consider giving up. Combining behavioural advice with pharmacotherapy for smokers, who visit the pharmacy with an ailment or long standing condition, could increase their chances of stopping. The suggestion that giving up smoking will improve a smoker’s overall health, speed up
the healing process and help prevent against disease could enhance their motivation to quit. Having an appropriately trained pharmacy team, pharmacies can offer services such as carbon monoxide testing, one-on-one advice and treatment on an ongoing basis, all year round.
It is important that all smoking cessation therapies be offered to any smoker motivated to quit and the benefits and risks attached to each therapy are explained. Taking into
account a patient’s medical history and smoking habit, an appropriate therapy can be suggested for each smoker.
The effectiveness of smoking cessation by supporting patients using a variety of methods, can be illustrated in the chart below, this clearly shows that by giving advice and treatment their chance of being abstinent from smoking increases considerably.
(Please note: Bupropion cannot be prescribed via the pharmacy scheme)
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