SMA, with CPDEasy.com, have taken the hassle out of providing advice and support on infant feeding, familiarising yourself with this new formulation, and taking action to meet your 9-a-year CPD entries.

NEW this month – OTC Expert: SMA Comfort Infant Milk

‘OTC Expert: SMA Comfort Infant Milk’ gives you the information you need to advise mums who can’t or choose not to breastfeed on the new SMA Comfort Easy to Digest Infant Milk.

It includes:

• Information on new SMA Comfort Infant Milk
• SMA Professional know-how website link
• CPD Record Aid on infant feeding

NOW take Action and make it COUNT towards your CPD:

• Access training ‘New SMA Comfort Infant Milk’
• Download a CPD Record Aid and turn it into one of your 9-a-year
• Visit SMA Professional know-how website to find out about SMA’s pre-term range and the new prescription only product Gold Prem 2 250ml

This ‘Diabetes MUR Toolkit’ from Devon LPC is designed to help improve the confidence of community pharmacy to provide high quality MURs for patients taking diabetes medicines for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes patients.

The toolkit is composed of three parts:

• Diabetes and its Management
• The Diabetes MUR Consultation
• Patient MUR Record Form

NOW take Action and make it COUNT towards your CPD:

• Access ‘Diabetes MUR Toolkit’
• Download a CPD Record Aid and turn it into one of your 9-a-year or NOW!

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The Clinical Pharmacy Congress streams are now available to purchase exclusively on CPDEasy.com. Each presentation comes with audio synchronised slides, a separate audio file to listen to on your phone or MP3 player and a part-populated CPD record aid to make it easy to log and record it as a CPD episode.

• Clinical 1: this stream delivers a world-class programme for clinical pharmacists covering areas such as diabetes, neurology, cardiology, rheumatology, oncology and depression. More…
• Clinical 2: includes mental health, renal, paediatrics, antimicrobials. More…
• Public Health and Commissioning: includes HLPs, homecare, and local professional networks.More…
• Professional Development and Leadership stream: covers a wide range of areas from patient safety to the new medicines service. More…
• Technology: includes eprescribing, medicines information and NICE evidence. More…

There are more than 75 hours of CPD and 50 part-filled Record Aids in your personal CPD learning account to access throughout the year!

Here’s what to do next

• View an example of what you get for each presentation
• Click here to purchase the Clinical Pharmacy Congress streams. As a CPDEasy.com subscriber you can claim 20% off the list price. Quote voucher code CPC Reloaded

PEP, the Idis Pharmacy Education Programme, has been providing training for pharmacists since 2001. Designed to support busy pharmacists in meeting their continuing professional development (CPD) requirements, PEP is delivered by renowned experts in their field, providing up-to-date information on a range of hot pharmacy topics and offers a flexible way of learning that’s accessible online 24/7.

The featured videos are:

• Risk Mitigation in Unlicensed Medicines – Ian Bourns, Director of Medicines Management and Pharmacy, East Sussex NHS Trust - Medicines are the most common healthcare intervention providing huge benefits to patients, but they also carry risks in their use. This Module will help you to identify and manage the risks associated with the use of unlicensed medicines to improve their practice and deliver top quality patient care.
• QIPP – Peter Rowe, National QIPP Lead – Medicines Use and Procurement - The QIPP agenda is driving how the NHS meets the challenges of an unprecedented increase in the demand for healthcare. Not only will you find out more about what QIPP is in this Module, but also about how this impacts on pharmacy and how you provide services to patients.
• GPhC – Hilary Lloyd, Director of Regulatory Services, General Pharmaceutical Council - All pharmacists are aware of the GPhC, but how much do you know about what it does and why it does it? This Module gives you the lowdown on why regulation is important and how you can comply with the essential regulatory requirements for pharmacists.

NOW take Action and make it COUNT towards your CPD:

• Access these videos through the Idis PeP channel on CPDEasy.com
• Download a CPD Record Aid for each of the videos and make them count towards your 9-a-year
• Roll out this course and others like this in your pharmacy and track staff learning. SIGN UP here or call Priya Kotecha on 020 8297 4863

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Part of the successful P&G PharmacyCare initiative, the Pharmacy Retail Skills Training features a series of bite-size Modules to help you drive sales. Tailor made for pharmacy assistants, this course will help you to delegate responsibility for merchandising and category management to your staff so you can focus on delivering other pharmacy service such as NMS and MURs.

The featured Modules are:

• Influencing Shoppers: One of the most fundamental aspects of being skilled in the art of retail is to understand your customers. This Module helps you to understand what motivates people to buy.
• Category Management Part 1: Building on ‘Influencing Shoppers’, in this Module you’ll find out more about the key principles of category management to help persuade customers to buy.
• Category Management Part 2: The focus for this Module is ‘New Product Development’ and why it is important in category management.
• Category Management Part 3: This Module covers the all important area of ‘Pricing and Promotions’ to help drive customers to your pharmacy.

NOW take Action and make it COUNT towards your CPD:

• Roll out this course and others like this in your pharmacy and track staff learning. SIGN UP here or call Priya Kotecha on 020 8297 4863
• View the P&G PharmacyCare Pharmacy Retail Skills channel on CPDEasy.com
• Download a CPD Record Aid and make it count towards your 9-a-year

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Aiding compliance

There are a wide range of OTC medicines available that provide effective pain relief. When selecting pain relief for customers consider the following:

• Customer preference: you can aid compliance by offering customers a choice of formats. Some might want a simplified, convenient dosing schedule while others prefer a dosing schedule that offers them flexibility.
• The formulation: oral or topical forms are available but customer preference has a major part to play in choosing the right treatment.
• The dose: always make sure the customer knows the correct dose and how to take/use appropriately.
• Suitability: the pain relief should ease symptoms without causing additional problems.

Painkillers in action

Painkillers are categorised according to their mode of action:

Non-opioid analgesics

Relieve mild-to-moderate pain by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins, reducing the pain sensation. These include:

• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Examples include diclofenac, ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen. NSAIDs reduce prostaglandin production, relieving pain and reducing swelling and inflammation. Over-the-counter (OTC) NSAIDs are available in oral and topical formats.
• Paracetamol is believed to act on prostaglandins in the brain to block the transmission of pain. It does not relieve inflammation or swelling. It is generally taken orally.

Opioid analgesics

Work by blocking pain receptors in the brain, which stops them receiving the pain messages from the damaged part of the body. OTC examples include codeine and dihydrocodeine, which are weak opioid analgesics. Whilst good at relieving pain they do not relieve inflammation and can cause side effects such as drowsiness and constipation.

Combination products

Opioids are only available OTC in low doses in combination with other painkillers. They can cause addiction so there is guidance on how they can be sold OTC.

Self-care measures

There are many ways customers can help themselves to ease pain and prevent future pain problems. Examples include:

• Managing back pain: advise customers to keep moving (bed rest is no longer recommended) but to avoid lifting and carrying where possible.
• Managing sports injuries: restrict exercise until the injury has healed, warm up and cool down before exercising, and wear a support bandage if needed.
• Strains and sprains: remember PRICE – protect, rest, ice, compression and elevation.

NOW take Action and make it COUNT towards your CPD:

• The Knowledge Bank Body Pain training and Pharmacist CPD support notes
• Education – Voltarol Pain-eze Extra Strength 25mg Tablets POM to P training
• CPD Record Aid for Managing Body Pain

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Find out more:

Book an online 10-minute demo with Priya Kotecha on 0208 2974863 or email priya.kotecha@cpdeasy.com

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CPDEasy.com is the official training partner for The Pharmacy Show and this year we’re putting together an exciting and interactive CPD package that covers NMS and other hot topics to help you turn your attendance into CPD Records.

All you have to do is download a bespoke CPDEasy.com Record Aid for each seminar. Each Record Aid is compatible with GPhC’s requirements, making the process of turning learning episodes from the conference into a ‘record’ for the GPhC, easy.

Don’t miss these Clinical highlights at The Pharmacy Show:

• Current practice in respiratory medicine by Toby Capstick of St James’s University Hospital
• Anticoagulation update – Scott Barrett of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Making sense of new diabetes treatments by Natasha Jacques of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

So why not start planning your visit now?

• Register for the new NMS Channel from CPDEasy.com
• Check out the Pharmacy Show 2011 packages and see what else is on offer
• Access a learning plan

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As a result you will be able to drive down training costs by an average of 41% and spend more time growing your pharmacy business.  Book a demo to find out how

With CPDEasy.com for Business you will be able to:

• Deliver training online
• Work in conjunction with your existing training set up
• Integrate with your existing HR systems
• Create individual learning accounts that motivate
• Create powerful dashboards for you and your managers to track staff progress

CPDEasy.com for Business – how it works

A web based learning platform that brings all your training in one place, lets you track staff progress and makes it easier to manage training without the burden of paperwork.

What’s on offer:

• Learning account for each staff member
• Accessed from anywhere – home or work
• World of content plus lets you upload your own training and SOPs
• Compliance training – includes GPhC-accredited and NVQ training, NMS, MUR and other training to support new services
• Dashboard for you and your managers to track staff progress

And the results…

Drive down training costs by an average 41% and spend more time growing your pharmacy business.