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Sexual health,

Sex education

Pharmacy teams are ideally placed to advise customers about their sexual health concerns and the resources available to them.

14 Feb 2025 , 1 Min Article

Pain relief,

Putting pain to bed

Getting to grips with what causes specific types of pain is key to optimising treatment options for customers.

14 Feb 2025 , 1 Min Article

Child & teen health,

Pharmacy teams know all about going above and beyond their job description to deliver care, much like how young carers go above and beyond what is usually expected of a young person to care for a family member.

14 Feb 2025 , 1 Min Article

Education & training,

Counter Conversations: Effectively using WWHAM

Part 1 of this brand-new short video series focusing on the pharmacy team's soft skills set first looks at using WWHAM questions to support customers.

06 Feb 2025 , 4 Min Article

Asthma & COPD,

Asthma management

Welcome to our CPD module series for community pharmacy technicians. Written in conjunction with the Pharmacy Magazine CPD series, it will mirror the magazine’s programme throughout the year. The series has been designed for you to use as part of your continuing professional development. Reflective exercises have been included to help you put your learning into practice.

10 Jan 2025 , 10 Min Module

Older people's health,

Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines part four

The fourth module in our series looking at care homes, focusing on legislation affecting care homes.

10 Jan 2025 , 10 Min Module

Cough & cold,

Cold & flu

The average adult suffers two to four colds a year in the UK. Children are even more prone, experiencing five to eight colds on average. As self care advice and OTC products for cold and flu are commonly available from the pharmacy, it is important pharmacy teams know what to recommend.

10 Jan 2025 , 15 Min Module

Services,

A helping hand

The precarious state of our ever-stretched NHS is never more obvious than in the winter months, but some innovative schemes are aiming to relieve some of the pressures in the year ahead.