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  • Controlled drugs
  • Developing medicines management systems & services
    • An introduction to medicines management
    • Medicines management in care homes
    • Shared care of medicines
    • Prescribing measures and their application
  • Evidence-informed
    decision-making (EIDM)
    • EIDM1 - Overview
    • EIDM2 - Dealing with information overload
    • EIDM3 - How individuals make decisions
    • EIDM4 - Shared decision-making with patients
  • Improvement tools, skills & techniques
    • Change management
    • Process mapping & system redesign
    • Problem solving
    • Setting objectives and measuring for improvement
    • Spreading and sustaining improvements
  • Improving safety & managing risk
    • Improving quality in prescribing
    • Improving safety & managing risk in medicines management systems and processes
    • Medicines reconciliation
    • Mixing of medicines
    • Prescribing Specials
  • MeReC
  • New medicines
  • Non-medical prescribing
  • Patients and their medicines
    • Self administration of medicines
  • Personal & organisational development
    • Developing effective communication skills
    • Effective team-working
    • Working with others
  • Quality, efficiency & waste reduction
    • One-stop dispensing and re-use of patients own drugs (PODs)
    • Reducing length of stay through medicines management interventions
    • Reducing waste in medicines management systems
    • Using GP clinical systems to support medicines management
  • Review medicines
    • An introduction to medication review
  • Therapeutics
    • Cardiovascular (inc diabetes)
      • Antiplatelets
      • Atrial fibrillation
      • Cardiovascular disease - Background and risk assessment
      • Cardiovascular disease - Hypertension
      • Cardiovascular disease - Lipids
      • Cardiovascular disease - Post MI
      • Cardiovascular disease - Stroke
      • Diabetes type 1
      • Diabetes type 2
      • Heart failure
      • Renin-angiotensin drugs
    • CNS & Mental health
      • Anxiety
      • Bipolar
      • Dementia
      • Depression
      • Drug misuse
      • Epilepsy
      • Insomnia
      • Mental health overview
      • Schizophrenia
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      • Common infections - Eye
      • Common infections - Introduction
      • Common infections - Respiratory tract
      • Common infections - UTI
    • Pain management
      • Back pain
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      • Pain overview
      • Rheumatoid arthritis
    • Respiratory tract
      • Asthma
      • COPD
      • Smoking cessation
    • Other therapeutics
      • Breast cancer
      • Contraception
      • Dyspepsia
      • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
      • Infestations
      • Lifestyle
      • Obesity
      • Osteoporosis
      • Prostate cancer
      • Skin
      • Wound care
  • The repeat medication management process
    • Repeat dispensing
    • Repeat prescribing
    • Medicines management for long-term conditions
• Supporting commissioner
  & provider organisations
  • Controlled drugs
  • Developing medicines management systems & services
    • Pharmaceutical public health
    • Shared care of medicines
    • Prescribing measures and their application
  • Improvement tools, skills & techniques
    • Process mapping & system redesign
    • Spreading & sustaining improvements
  • Local decision-making
  • NPC Facilitators (NPCFs) programme
  • Personal & organisational development
    • Involving patients & the public in service development
  • QIPP
  • Quality, efficiency & waste reduction
    • Minor ailment schemes
    • Reducing waste in medicines management systems
    • Oral Nutritional Supplements
• Supporting decision-
  making with patients
  • Patients & their medicines
    • Adherence to treatment & developing concordance skills
    • Assessing & improving adherence to prescribed medicines
    • Practical support for patients with their medicines
  • Patient decision aids