Category: Pharmacy

National Self Care Week

National Self Care Week is 15 – 21 November 2021

  • Self Care Week is an annual UK-wide national awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self care across communities, families and generations.
  • Practise Self Care for Life is the theme for 2021
  • The Self Care Forum has been organising Self Care Week since 2011

For more information visit the website

Community pharmacies

Supporting the health and well-being of the local population

A NICE quality standard covering how community pharmacies can promote health and well-being. It describes high quality care in areas identified as priorities. To find out more click here.

The flowchart below outlines areas covered and associated recommendations.

In Practice: Guidance for Pharmacist Prescriber’s

General Pharmaceutical Council guidance covering five key areas that pharmacist prescribers must consider in order to prescribe safe and effective. These are: taking responsibility for prescribing safely; keeping up to date and prescribing within their level of competence; working in partnership with other healthcare professionals and persons seeking care; prescribing

To view, this report click here

Productive healthy ageing: interventions for quality of life

Public Health England, March 2019
This document lists interventions that can be made by pharmacy teams, to help older people to lead more independent lives and improve their health.
The document includes interventions based around:

  • preventing falls
  • dementia
  • physical inactivity
  • social isolation, and loneliness
  • malnutrition

In addition to pharmacy teams, the guidance can be consulted by pharmaceutical and medical committees, local authorities, clinical commissioning groups and local NHS England teams.
Click here to view the document.

Polypharmacy: getting our medicines right

Royal Pharmaceutical Society, February 2019
This guidance is for pharmacists and all healthcare organisations involved with medicine and provides a summary of the scale and complexity of the issue of polypharmacy. The guidance outlines how healthcare professionals, patients and carers can find solutions when polypharmacy causes problems for patients and points to useful resources that can help.  The guidance recommends that all healthcare organisations have systems in place to ensure people taking 10 or more medicines can be identified and highlighted as requiring a comprehensive medication review with a pharmacist.
Click here to view the guidance.