Clinical Pharmacy Practice Keele University

Overview

The Clinical Pharmacy Practice degree from Keele University aims to equip you with the relevant knowledge and skills necessary to develop and extend your professional role - whatever the current level of your career.

Post-registration foundation training may, for example, entail building on your existing knowledge of disease states, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and therapeutics to enable you to apply this in a clinical setting. We offer clinical modules on Cardiovascular Disease, Infections, Respiratory Disease and Mental Health, for example. 

Alternatively, you may wish to use the CPP programme to increase your confidence in your ability to contribute to patient care as part of the multidisciplinary healthcare team. Our skills-based modules include Personal Effectiveness and Collaborative Working, Leadership and Change Management, and Education Theory and Practice for Health Professionals, among others.

Students will be encouraged to develop problem-solving approaches to clinical practice: for instance, how to assess drug therapy for effectiveness, safety, compatibility, patient acceptability and cost to make effective, evidence-based interventions and optimise prescribing practice.

Depending on whether you work within the hospital sector, community pharmacy or primary care, you can select specialist modules focusing on pharmaceutical care in relation to Critical Care and Parenteral Nutrition, Hepatic Disease, or Women's Health.

Career opportunities:

The clinical and professional modules we offer aim to equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to develop and extend your clinical and professional role as part of a multidisciplinary health care team. If you go on to achieve the Professional MSc, the specialist research skills you learn also provide a strong foundation for pursuing further study at doctoral level and you could progress to our Professional Doctorate.

Keele is recognised nationally as a centre of excellence for postgraduate education delivered by distance learning. Our programmes are highly acclaimed by students, employers, purchasers and external course assessors for their structure, content and end value in relation to service, professional and career development.

Positions may include:

• Academic

• Community pharmacist

• Consultant pharmacist

• Enhanced services community pharmacist

• GP pharmacist

• Hospital specialist pharmacist

• Prescribing pharmacist

• Primary care pharmacist