Training Module
| Validity of Certificate
|
| CPR Adults and Children | As stated by training provider (usually two years) |
| Medicines Administration (Parenteral) | Self-assessment (See below) |
| Responding to an Emergency and Management of Anaphylaxis (RESMA) | Two years
|
| Delivery of a vaccination service | Two years |
| Naloxone Injection | Two years
|
| Glucagon injection | Two years
|
| Salbutamol Inhaler | Two years
|
| Glyceryl Trinitrate Spray | Two years
|
| Seasonal Influenza | One influenza season
|
| Pneumococcal Polysaccharide | Two years
|
| Herpes Zoster | Two years
|
Pharmacists are required to ensure that their training is up to date in order to deliver vaccination and/or emergency medicines services. Training must be repeated once the certificate has expired, irrespective of whether the pharmacist has experience of delivering the service in the past.
Validity of Medicines Administration (Parenteral) Training Programme Certification: Pharmacists are asked to reflect, self-assess and to evaluate whether they need to refresh their training in this programme, in order to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to safely deliver the associated medicines or vaccination service.
The PSI requires that this training programme is repeated if a pharmacist wishes to administer;
- a vaccine or emergency medicine via an injection route i.e. intramuscular or subcutaneous, which they have never previously administered, or
- a vaccine or emergency medicine via an injection route which they have neither practised (i.e. administered to a patient) nor been trained in, in the previous 12 months (or in the case of seasonal influenza vaccination, in the previous flu season).
Please note that ‘trained in’ refers to training in the Medicines Administration (Parenteral) Training Programme.