Mental ill health may range from everyday worries and grief we each experience as part of our day-to-day lives, to the most bleak, suicidal depression or complete loss of touch with everyday reality. The causes of mental ill health are complex and multifactorial including genetic, social and psychological risk factors.

This course will provide an overview of the pharmacists’ role in delivering holistic care, giving you a greater understanding of how pharmacy professionals across all sectors can support patients. It is a great introduction to Bath’s full 11-week unit ‘Mental Health’, which covers this content in more depth.

This course explores the links between a healthier planet and healthier people.

Once completed, you will have gained an understanding of how environmental sustainability relates to UK pharmacy practice, and the impact on pharmaceutical public health. You will learn ways to reduce emissions across medicines, transport and healthcare, and be able to identify lower-carbon methods for practicing pharmacy.

The course provides an introduction to Bath’s full 11-week unit ‘Pharmaceutical Public Health’, which covers this content more thoroughly.

Pharmacists are required to answer questions about medicines and provide advice about medicines to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals. This course will cover how to access resources to be able to effectively and accurately provide information to patients about medications.

This course is a great introduction to Bath’s comprehensive full 11-week unit ‘Foundation Skills (Secondary Care)’.

As the population continues to live longer, the numbers of patients taking several medications for different co-occurring conditions is growing. During this course you will learn how to define multimorbidity, polypharmacy and deprescribing; the key policies and how they might impact your practice.

You will be able to evaluate the screening tools and resources currently available for managing the risks associated with polypharmacy. You’ll gain an understanding of the role of a pharmacist in medication reviews, and how to develop a systematic approach to carrying out reviews of patients with multiple co-morbidities and polypharmacy.

The course is a great introduction to Bath’s full 11-week unit ‘Managing Polypharmacy and Multimorbidity’, which goes into the topic in more detail.

During practice, it is important to understand the appropriate use of key blood tests in patient care, both to the patients’ clinical condition and the associated drug therapy. This course features four sections that will strengthen your knowledge of a number of the clinically relevant lab tests you are likely to see in practice. You will cover haematological tests, measuring urea and electrolytes, phosphate and magnesium metabolism and liver function tests.

The course is a great introduction to Bath’s full 11-week unit ‘Professional Skills for Medicines Optimisation’, which covers this content in more depth.