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With services like blood pressure screening and personalised OTC and lifestyle advice, Training Matters explores how pharmacy teams are key to supporting heart health in their communities.
12 Mar 2025
Welcome to our CPD module series for community pharmacy technicians.
14 Feb 2025
The heart is well-known as an emblem of love, around which many a saying revolve, but it is foremost the vital organ responsible for pumping blood and oxygen around the body. If not looked after, the heart’s health can deteriorate and cause serious problems.
13 Nov 2024
This module covers medicines used in the management of heart failure.
13 Sep 2023
The module will help you to formulate the key points to discuss with a patient prescribed treatment for heart failure. You will also be able to describe how you might identify patients who may have undiagnosed heart failure or who may require changes to their treatment due to a deterioration in symptom control.
14 Aug 2023
More than half the UK population are destined to end up with a heart or circulatory condition, but earlier intervention from community pharmacy teams could change that.
14 Jun 2023
Last year pharmacies in England embarked on hypertension case-finding for their patients.1 Take-up of the NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service has been rapid.
15 Aug 2022
Despite advances in diagnosis and pharmacotherapy, heart failure remains, all too often, a death sentence.
22 Jun 2022
Understanding NICE pharmacological treatment guidelines and options for the management of hypertension.
25 Mar 2022
This module provides an overview of the current NICE guidelines for lipid modification in reducing cardiovascular risk.
11 Sep 2020
Women are twice as likely to die of a heart attack than men, but pharmacy teams can raise awareness of this and help to ensure women get support.
10 Aug 2020
Part two of this CPPE module looks at the different guidelines available on COPD.
12 Jun 2020
Part three of Body Talk considers the workings of the blood.
25 Oct 2019
Part two of Body Talk considers the workings of the cardiovascular system.
17 Oct 2019
This CPD module takes a look at atrial fibrillation, how to detect and manage the condition to prevent further health issues.
15 Aug 2019
Improve your understanding of pacemakers and look at the dos and don'ts for managing life with one post surgery.
15 Jul 2019
