Foundation Degree in Pharmacy: a workforce development programme devised jointly by The School of Ph

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Foundation Degree in Pharmacy a workforce
development programme devised jointly by The
School of Pharmacy, Birkbeck Westminster
Kingsway in collaboration with NHS Managers and
London Pharmacy Education
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Presentation Covers

• Foundation Degrees what are they?
• What the Foundation Degree in Pharmacy can offer
  Employers and Pharmacy Technicians
• Study Modules a summary
• Course Running Arrangements
• In conclusion
• QA

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Foundation Degrees What are they?

• Part of Governments standards and qualifications
  framework comprising 2/3 of traditional
  undergraduate degree with 240 of 360 credits of
  normal degree
• Designed to equip students with key technical and
  transferable skills and academic knowledge at
  associate professional and higher technical
  level rated as NVQ level 4, HND level
• Aim to widen access of workforce to graduate
  qualifications by provision of focused part-time
  study and CPD with due recognition of knowledge
  and skills acquired. Graduates entitled to use
  letters FdSc
• Partnership between employers, HE/FE, Regional
  Development Agencies and Sector Skills Councils

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• What can this Foundation Degree in Pharmacy offer
  to Employers?
• A curriculum mapped to NHS Keys Skills Framework
  and linked to CPD and Agenda for Change
• Enhance awareness and ability of technicians to
  contribute to and promote local service
  development and meet workplace objectives
• Attract high calibre staff into technician roles
  which are expanding commensurately with new
  Pharmacist roles, meeting NHS challenges
• Retain high calibre staff wanting to enhance
  their skills and qualifications as graduate
  workforce becomes the norm
• Demonstrate employer commitment to development of
  professional status of technicians and
  recognition of importance of the role

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• What can the Foundation Degree offer
• to Pharmacy Technicians? (Slide1)
• Professional Development Career Progression
• Matches NHS Key Skills Framework and role
  development outlined in the Agenda for Change
• Greater knowledge, wider perspective of Pharmacy
  and the NHS
• Share, identify Best Practice with fellow
  technicians and enhance contribution to
  development of pharmacy services in own workplace

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• What can the Foundation Degree offer
• to Pharmacy Technicians? (Slide 2)
• Skills developed ( enhanced via focused
  assignments) include
• Management, supervisory and leadership skills
• Clinical pharmacy skills and medicines management
• Implementation of risk reduction practices
• Business and Financial Planning for healthcare
  provision
• Promoting Service within own organisation,
  customer services and accountability
• Personal Development
• Graduate status, enhance own sense of career
  development and achievement

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Modules Year 1 (Slide 1)

• Physical Chemical and Life Processes
• chemistry/science base for later work on
  structure drug molecules etc.
• Skills taking measurements, handling data,
  accurately recording and processing
• IT in Pharmacy (Tutor Paul Dow of UCLH)
• identify key technology changes in NHS, range and
  functionality of dispensing and management
  systems in Pharmacy Practice
• Skills maximise benefits of Dept.of Healths
  Connecting for Health IT scheme to obtain
  attain ECDL complete work-related assignment on
  pharmacy application of IT in own workplace

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Modules Year 1( Slide 2)

• Science and Modern Medicine
• Insight into workings of modern science and
  medicine community practice and peer review.
  Role of germ control and genetics.
• Skills research and presentation for
  work-related assignment on history, current
  treatments and management of a chosen disease.
  Peer review of fellow presenters.
• Pharmacy Health Services Organisation
• current challenges within NHS Pharmacy
  managing change finance business planning.
• Skills report writing and summary for
  presentation -workplace change assignment
• The Effective Pharmacy Manager
• managing self/others in context of Pharmacy
  Practice
• Skills reflective practice, leadership and
  appraisal skills, educating and training others

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Modules Year 2

• Applied Clinical Pharmacology
• relating drug action at molecular level to
  clinical outcomes receptordrug interactions.
• Skills decision making based on clinical data,
  critical thinking and appraisal
• Medicines Management
• Clinical Pharmacy and therapeutics local and
  national policies for management of medicines and
  use of NSF and NICE guidelines.
• Skills critical analysis demonstrated by
  undertaking in-depth patient profiles and
  formally assessed patient consultation episodes.
  Sound judgement in limits of own knowledge and
  when to refer to more experienced colleagues.
• Managing the Pharmacy Supply Chain
• Develop broad understanding of key components in
  the supply chain. Roles of NHS, hospitals and
  PCTs. Training in procurement, logistics and
  Management Systems.
• Skills critical appraisal of local supply chains
  and other models to identify best practice.
  Contribute to enhancement of local supply chain.

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Modules Year 3 (Slide 1)

• Clinical Pharmaceutics and Medicines Science
• Drug formulation excipients and manufacturing
  methods dosage forms routes of
  administration-influence on clinical outcomes and
  ADRs special patient groups.
• Skills enhanced decision making application
  of attained knowledge to fit with developing
  clinical roles of technicians.
• Clinical Governance (Developed in consultation
  with Allan Karr of UCLH)
• legislation and processes in UK including
  medicines licensing, informed consent in clinical
  trials, use of UMPs. Audit Cycle. Evaluation key
  pharmacy and medicines risk methods to reduce
  medication errors. ADRs.
• Skills record keeping- monitoring reporting
  learning from errors assignment on conducting
  audit of pharmacy service in own institution.

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Modules Year 3 (Slide 2)

• Managing Pharmacy Services
• (Developed in consultation with Allan Karr of
  UCLH)
• Current causes impact of change inc.NHS KSF,
  AfC, and new community pharmacy contracts
  influence on technicans role and pharmacy
  services within organisations. Budgeting for
  human resource, drugs, stock control importance
  of strategic approach.
• Skills application of complex ideas to problem
  solving in work place, promoting service and
  contribution to achieving objectives of
  organisation.
• Work-based Project
• can be the Audit of Pharmacy Service in area of
  student choice

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When, Where and What it costs

• 2 years and 2 terms (Years 3 is 2 terms only
  finishing at Easter)
• Mondays during term time, 2pm to 9pm in 2 x
  3hrs-long sessions
• 1,122 per annum (Year 3 fee is 2/3rds of annual
  fee) some students may be eligible for financial
  assistance and fees may be paid by monthly
  instalment
• Classes in Year 1 will be held at Birkbecks
  Malet Street campus School of Pharmacy and
  Westminster Kingsway are only 10 minutes away
  from Birkbeck.

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For further details about the Foundation Degree
in Pharmacy contact the Programme Manager,
Karen Rumsey, by email on foundation.pharmacy_at_fce
.bbk.ac.uk or k.rumsey_at_fce.bbk.ac.uk or by
telephone on 020-7079 0891 or come to our Open
Evening on Wednesday, 23 August from 6 until 8pm
in the Council Room at Birkbecks Malet Street
site.
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In Conclusion This Foundation Degree is all
about enabling pharmacy technicians to play a
full role in improving the Quality of Pharmacy
Services to meet the current and future demands
on the Service.
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