RPS Pharmacy Guides

Professional help, guidance, and advice for every sector at every level, sorted alphabetically and by theme.

A-Z index

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A

Administration of medicines

Adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) - schools

Aesthetics practice | policy

Amorolfine nail lacquer POM to P

Anti-malarial POM to P

Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship main page

AMR and AMS Pharmacy guide - Top 10 ways you can fight AMR and promote safer antimicrobial use

Aseptic preparation services

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B

Becoming a prescriber

Black triangle 

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C

Care homes - medicines | report

Care homes - working in

Career support 

Changing prescribing scope of practice

Chemicals

Chief pharmacists

Children collecting and purchasing medicines from a pharmacy

Chloramphenicol POM to P

Clarinaze allergy control POM to P

Clinical audit

Clinical check

Clinical documentation for pharmacists

Clinical governance

Clinical Pharmacy, Oxford Handbook | e-book

Competency framework - designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs)

Competency framework - prescribers

Community pharmacy - preparing for day one

Compliance aids (MCA) best practice

Compounding sterile preparations | e-book

Confidence in consultation skills

Confidently prescribe

Consultation skills

Contraceptives POM to P

Controlled drugs - emergency supply

Controlled drugs - prescribing

Controlled drugs - requisitions

Controlled drugs - safe custody

Controlled drugs (CDs)

Controlled drugs - legal prescription requirements

Controlled drugs - instalment prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - dental prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - destruction

Controlled drugs  - private prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - repeat dispensing or repeat prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - technical errors

Controlled drugs  - veterinary prescriptions

Controlled drugs  - Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) prescriptions

Counselling people on medicines

COVID-19

COVID-19 - clinical information

CPD records

CPD - e-portfolio

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D

Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy and Medicines Law | e-book

Designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) competency framework

Designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) - how to find

Desogestrel POM to P

Drugs and driving

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E

EEA and Swiss prescriptions

Emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) POM to P

Emergency supply

Enteral Feeding - drug administration | e-book

E-portfolio - MyCPD

Error reporting standards

Errors

Estradiol vaginal tablet POM to P

Ethical and professional decision making

Ethics - prescribing

Expanding Prescribing Scope of Practice

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F

Fasting 

Finding a designated prescribing practitioner (DPP)

Fit notes

 

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G

General practice pharmacist - repeat prescribing | position statement (Scotland)

GP practice - working in

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H

Herbal medicines

Homecare services standards

Homeopathy

Hospital - benchmarking

Hospital pharmacy standards

Hospital pharmacy - preparing for day one

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I

Independent prescribers (IP) 

Injectable Drugs Handbook | e-book

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JKL

Labelling of medicines

Lactation - drugs in | e-book

Laxatives - OTC stimulant laxatives in community

Leadership development framework

Lidocaine GSL to P

Locum pharmacists

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M

Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry | e-book

Medical devices

Medication adherence

Medicines, Ethics and Practice (MEP)

Medication history

Medicines reconciliation and medication history

Medication review

Medicine shortages - community pharmacy

Medicine shortages - secondary care (England)

Medicines optimisation

Mentoring

Mometasone POM to P

MyCPD portfolio

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N

Near misses - near miss errors

Neonatal Formulary | e-book

New medicines, better use of medicines

Newly qualified

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O

Orlistat POM to P

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P

Palliative Care, Oxford Handbook | e-book

Peer Discussion

Pharmaceutical industry - preparing for day one

Pharmacist prescribers

Pharmacovigilance

Podiatrists - supply of medicines

Poisons and chemicals

Polypharmacy

POM to P changes

Pregnancy - drugs in | e-book

Pre-reg assessment questions | e-book

Pre-Registration trainees (now known as Trainee Pharmacists)

Prescribers

Prescriber - aspiring

Prescriber - trainee and newly qualified

Prescribing - Non-Medical Prescribing Textbook | e-book

Prescribing competency framework

Prescribing ethics

Prescribing Medicines for Children | e-book

Prescribing resources

Prescribing - return to practice

Prisons standards

Professional empowerment

Professional judgement

Professional standards

Provisional registration

Provisional Registration - E-portfolio

Pseudoephedrine & ephedrine

Psychiatry prescribing | e-book

Psychopharmacology | e-book

Putting the patient first: how pharmacy can get it right

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Q

Quality assurance of aseptic preparation services (QAAPS)

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R

Raising concerns - whistleblowing

Ramadan - fasting

Reclassification

Reducing workplace pressure through professional empowerment

Reflective Account

Renal Drug Handbook | e-book

Repeat medicines

Research and evaluation

Resources - prescribing

Responsible pharmacist

Retinoids and pregnancy

Return to practice

Returning to pharmacy practice

Revalidation

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S

Safe and secure handling of medicines

Safeguarding - children and young people

Safeguarding - vulnerable adults

Safely prescribe

Salbutamol inhalers - schools

Secure environments standards

Sildenafil POM to P

Smoking cessation services - audit

Specials

Standards

Sumatriptan POM to P

Symptoms in the pharmacy | e-book

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TU

Tadalafil POM to P

Trainee Pharmacists

Transfer of care 

Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations | e-book

Tutoring

Type 2 diabetes - using pharmacists to help improve care | policy

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V

Valproate and the Pregnancy Prevention Programme

Vet - Medicines 

Vet - Cascade

Vet - Prescriptions

Vet - Controlled Drugs

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W

Waste medicines | audit

Wellbeing

Welsh language

Whistleblowing

Working as a locum

Workplace pressure

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XYZ

Yellow card scheme