Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences

Learning Methods

Online

Tutorial

Module Offerings

7213CPPHAR-MAR-CTY

7213CPPHAR-SEP-CTY

7213CPPHAR-SEP_NS-CTY

Aims

This module aims to develop students’ leadership skills to enable them to implement initiatives to optimise medicines for the wider population both within an organisation and between healthcare sectors.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Critically appraise medicines safety issues in a defined area of practice and propose strategies to mitigate these risks
2.
Critically evaluate the national and local drivers affecting medicines use
3.
Appraise own leadership skills in service provision and medicine use

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
• Medicines safety in the NHS • NHS England patient safety alerts • Risk management • Local and national drivers relating to medicines use and service development – e.g. Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework, RPS Hospital Standards, CQUINs, QoF, CQC inspections, medicines optimisation dashboards, • Funding of drugs in NHS o Tariff vs PBR exclusion o Horizon scanning o Specialist funding streams for medicines – e.g. Cancer drug fund • Cost improvement programmes • Medicines management at organisational level • Introducing new drugs into the health economy • Formulary management • Shared care guidance • Leadership frameworks (NHS and RPS) • Models of leadership • Differences between leadership and management • Systems leadership • Managing change
Module Overview:
This module is for the PGDip and MSc. The module aims to develop students' leadership skills to enable you to implement initiatives to optimise medicines for the wider population both within an organisation and between healthcare sectors.

Assessments

Reflection