In healthcare, a weakness in advanced clinical pharmacy planning is eventually paid for by a patient. Accreditation bodies assess pharmacy planning on documented evidence of consistent practice. Participants finish able to explain this strand of health and pharmaceutical services to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The professional literature on advanced clinical pharmacy planning converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The level assumes working familiarity with the clinical service but no prior formal training in the practice within health and pharmaceutical services. It establishes a shared vocabulary for pharmacy planning so that teams can disagree productively about it. Ambition around advanced clinical pharmacy planning outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants test their assumptions about pharmacy planning against scenarios designed to break weak ones. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this strand of health and pharmaceutical services that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around advanced clinical pharmacy planning.
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Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on pharmacy planning.
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Communicate the purpose of advanced clinical pharmacy planning to those who have to comply with it.
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Audit pharmacy planning in practice, not only in policy.
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Apply regulatory and licensing requirements governing advanced clinical pharmacy planning.
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Establish incident and near-miss reporting on pharmacy planning that staff trust.
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Present the case for investment in advanced clinical pharmacy planning in terms that a finance function will accept.
Who Should Attend
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Infection prevention and control practitioners covering advanced clinical pharmacy planning.
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Staff seconded into improvement work on pharmacy planning.
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Accreditation and compliance officers preparing evidence on advanced clinical pharmacy planning.
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Pharmacists and pharmacy managers involved in pharmacy planning.
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Analysts producing the data on which decisions about advanced clinical pharmacy planning rest.
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Health information and records staff supporting pharmacy planning.
Course Modules
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Advanced clinical pharmacy planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
