Training packages

Let us help you cultivate your skills and expertise with training in Travel health, Vaccinations, BLS, Flu and Weight management.

Travel health

Foundations

  • Role of a pharmacist in a travel clinic

  • Aim of a consultation and importance of risk assessment

  • Special risk traveller and resources

  • Vaccine preventable diseases

  • Malaria/bite avoidance

  • Traveller's diarrhoea

  • Altitude sickness

  • Outbreaks

  • PGD and platform options

  • full day session

Foundations + Nuumad

  • Role of a pharmacist in a travel clinic

  • Aim of a consultation and importance of risk assessment

  • Special risk traveller and resources

  • Nuumad walk-through

  • Vaccine preventable diseases

  • Malaria/bite avoidance

  • Traveller's diarrhoea

  • Altitude sickness

  • Outbreaks

  • Live role play with Nuumad

  • full day session

Travel Refresher

  • aimed at those HCPs who have completed a foundations training

  • includes foundations information, but with less detail

  • new updates specific to 2024

  • half a day session










BLS (basic life support)

  • Current legislation and local resuscitation policies

  • Individual roles and responsibilities

  • Recognising patients with clinical deterioration

  • Chain of survival

  • Choking

  • Recovery position

  • Basic life support (adult and paediatric)

  • Using an AED

  • Anaphylaxis (what is anaphylaxis, what causes it and how to recognise it)

  • Treatment of anaphylaxis – demonstrate both auto injectors and drawing up from glass vials

  • Being able to identify the difference between anaphylaxis and a faint

Immunisations

Foundations

  • How the immune system works and how vaccines work

  • The importance of immunisations

  • Notifiable diseases and surveillance

  • The routine immunisation schedule, individual disease discussion

  • Consent 

  • PGD's and PSD's and legal processes

  • The cold chain

  • Injection technique

  • Anaphylaxis overview

  • can be combined with BLS

Imms Refresher

  • aimed at those HCPs who have completed a foundations training

  • includes foundations information, but with less detail

  • new updates specific to 2024

  • half a day session






Flu training

  • What is Flu and why do we vaccinate against it?​

  • The aim of flu immunisation, national flu vaccine policy and schedules​

  • The immune response to flu vaccines and how vaccines work​

  • What are the different types of flu vaccines?​

  • Current issues in flu immunisation​

  • Communication with patients, parents, carers and other relevant people​

  • Consent​

  • Storage and handling of flu vaccines​

  • Correct administration of flu vaccines​

  • Anaphylaxis and adverse reactions​

  • Documentation, record keeping and reporting​

  • Strategies for optimising immunisation uptake

Weight management

  • Self-guided eLearning option

  • What are the causes of obesity?

  • What is the impact of obesity?

  • What is the NHS doing to tackle obesity?

  • The NHS Digital Weight Management Programme

  • Who is eligible for the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme?

  • How do you diagnose a patient as obese?

  • How do you measure a patients BMI?

  • What are the treatment options available?

  • The role of community pharmacists in obesity and weight management

  • How do pharmacists identify a patient for weight loss medication?

  • What service should be offered once patients have been started on medication?