Health Faculty Publications PG Study and Research 2016 | Seite 41

Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning
School of Pharmacy
THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY has over 20 years' experience in delivering postgraduate courses to pharmacists and other healthcare
professionals. We are proud of our highly acclaimed reputation which led in 2014 to the creation of The Centre for Professional
Development and Lifelong Learning, hosted by the School of Pharmacy, Keele University.  We have extensive experience of designing 
programmes of study that are easily accessible and relevant to working healthcare professionals. We offer highly flexible learning
programmes, delivered principally by open and distance learning. Students can choose a fixed pathway as their preferred route of

Research in
the School of
Pharmacy

study, or, by selecting the CPD Plus+ route, may 'pick and mix' modules from across our programmes to build up their own
pathway to a Certificate, Diploma or an MSc award. Students who chose the CPD Plus+ route have flexibility in the
timescales for their studies with us. Alternatively, you may choose to complete a single CPD Plus+ stand-alone course at
any point in your career to meet your own professional development needs, without the need to work towards a
postgraduate award. The Independent Prescribing Preparatory Course for pharmacists can be integrated into any
Diploma pathway. This route will give you the professional award necessary for registration with the General
Pharmaceutical Council as a prescriber as well as an academic Diploma award.
We offer courses to suit all stages of a career from newly qualified to advanced practitioner, including a
professional doctorate that provides the opportunity for pharmacists to achieve the highest
academic qualification in a progressive way related to their professional and career development.
We aim to support professional development in every sector of pharmacy, and to enable
students to see every opportunity that exists for pharmacists. However you choose to
study with us, you will be fully supported by our team of experienced tutors. This starts
from the moment you are considering how to meet your professional development
needs, until you complete your studies with us having gained the learning
experience and qualifications you desire.

Research in the School of Pharmacy
underpins our curricula and much of the
research activity in the school is linked with
the Faculty’s two Research Institutes: the
Research Institute for Primary Care and Health
Sciences and the Research Institute for Science and
Technology in Medicine. We work closely with the
Research Institutes, academics from other universities, and
local and national NHS organisations, as well as with a
number of companies from the Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
industries. Academic and teaching staff in the School contribute
actively to research and scholarship across established and
developing agendas relevant to the role of pharmacist as a clinical
expert (medicines optimisation, clinical decision support, medicines
adherence, polypharmacy and multimorbidity, public health) and as a
scientist (Novel drug formulations; paediatric medicines formulation;
transdermal drug delivery; and basic biomedical research
(Oncology and Neuroscience).

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