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?