Delivering Pharmacy Public Health Services
Overview
Public Health is a key area for practice development for the pharmacy profession to improve patient outcomes, and all members of the pharmacy team play an important part in this. This Level 4 programme is designed for pharmacy professionals who wish to undertake public health activities to promote health and wellbeing messages to others.
Benefits
- Understand how to deliver evidence-based public health services that meet national standards and local policies.
- Develop skills and tools to make effective brief interventions, making every appropriate contact count.
- Gain the confidence to seek out opportunities to become an advocate for health.
- Level 4 Agored Cymru accredited programme.
- A quality assured, competence-based certificate that is transferable across sector.
Eligibility
Registered pharmacy technicians working in all sectors who regularly interact with the public/patients.
- Applicants must obtain approval from their line manager (who will authorise the training time required for completion of this programme).
- Commitment to attend all programme dates.
- Commitment to complete a portfolio of evidence which includes 10 lifestyle interventions.
Course structure
Live interactive workshops:
- Face-to-face tutorials
- Professional discussions
- Written questions
- Practice activities:
- Evidence collection of brief interventions
- Management of a public health campaign
- Objective structured clinical observation (OSCE)
- Completion of an evidence-based portfolio
- Documented reflections
- Poster design