The Programme is designed to allow you choice and flexibility in your progression to Certificate, Diploma, and Masters Awards, to meet your specific professional development needs and advance your professional practice.
MSc, PGCert, PGDip Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Modules
Modules to Support Foundation Degree
SKILLS-BASED MODULES
Education Theory and Practice for Health Professionals
Evaluating Practice
Leadership and Change Management
Monitoring Therapy
Personal Effectiveness and Collaborative Working
Quality in Healthcare and Evidence-Based Practice
Rational Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation
Introduction to Hospital Clinical Pharmacy*
patient-centered care and Medicines Optimisation*
Introduction to Public Health**
CLINICAL TOPICS
Cardiovascular Disease 1
Cardiovascular Disease 2
Central Nervous System Diseases
Child Health
Endocrine Disease
Gastrointestinal Disease
Infections
Joint and Bone Disease
Mental Health
Respiratory Disease
Advancing Your Practice
- Critical Care and Parenteral Nutrition*
- Hepatic Disease*
- Introduction to Working in General Practice**
- Malignant Disease*
- Renal Disease*
- Surgical*
- Women’s Health
Professional MSc
- Introduction to Research Methods (15 Credits)
- Research in Practice (15 Credits)
- Researching Professional Practice (30 Credits)
Employability
The Programme is designed to allow you choice and flexibility in your progression to Certificate, Diploma, and Masters Awards, to meet your specific professional development needs and advance your professional practice. This program can be a core part of supporting your learning during your foundation training and in advancing your practice as your career progresses.
We are closely in touch, through our advisors and networks, with NHS development and service needs. We are recognized nationally as a center of excellence for postgraduate education delivered by distance learning. Our programs 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.
Key Facts
Requirements
- To gain admission to the Certificate and Diploma courses, you must be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), or equivalent for pharmacists working overseas, and be practicing either full-time or part-time in a patient-facing role.
- For our fixed pathway, we recommend that applicants should normally, have worked in a patient-facing pharmacy setting for 6-12 months prior to commencing the Course so that they have gained some experience of working in this sector. Applicants who wish to study on our fixed pathway program and who work in the hospital sector must be working at a hospital that can provide a Clinical Coordinator to support you in the workplace. It is also essential that you have the support of your workplace to access patient data, where necessary for course learning activities and assessment. The equivalent of 100 hours of study per 10 credits will be required to complete your course.
- The fixed pathway of this program is not available to those who are not residents and working in the UK. However, the CPD Plus flexible pathway to obtain a Clinical Pharmacy Practice award is available to International pharmacists practicing in either primary or secondary care.
- Normally, only applicants with a minimum of a second class degree classification (or equivalent for applicants from outside the UK) in Pharmacy will be accepted onto the program without an interview.
- IELTS – an average of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-tests is required.
Duration options
The program is offered part-time by distance learning over 1-5 years. The Programme is flexible in that it allows you to finish your studies at one of 3 postgraduate levels for the award of Certificate (C), Diploma (D), or Masters (M).
Start Dates
January (PG Cert, PG Dip)
February (MSc)
Monthly intake for our flexible pathway
Fees and Applying
EU/Home – Tuition Fees (Part-time) :
- UK – £3,400
- PGCert – £3,400
- PGDip – £3,400
International –
- Confirmed Soon.
