Local face to face workshops from CPPE

Announcing the return of local face to face workshops from CPPE

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CPPE What’s on this November 2025

Hi everyone

I hope this note finds you well in these times of workplace pressures and change. If you fancy a bit of face to face networking and a chance to share experiences and learn with local people then I hope you will be pleased to hear we are running some NEW face to face workshops.

I have tried hard to spread them out across our beautiful county of Yorkshire but if there isn’t one near you and you know there would a demand and a budget friendly venue please come back to me.

• Blood pressure assessment in community pharmacy: essential skills : CPPE face to face practical evening workshop (Pharmacists, Trainee Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians), includes ABPM.

1. 15th October Mount Pleasant Hotel Doncaster DN11 0HW

1. 11th February Cedar Court Hotel Huddersfield HD3 3RH

1. 17th March The Village Hotel Hull HU4 7DY
2. Respiratory clinical assessment skills (Pharmacists and Trainee Pharmacists only) Sunday 25^th January 10am to 5pm John Charles Centre Leeds LS11 5DJ
3. Prescribing perspectives: a focus on weight management face to face evening workshop open to all pharmacy professionals who are involved in, or are considering becoming involved in, providing weight management medicines – whether through independent prescribing or via a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
4. 22nd October The Village Hotel Hull HU4 7DY
5. 18th November The Village Hotel Leeds North LS16 5PR
6. 24th November Cedar Court Hotel Bradford BD5 8HW
7. 26th January Mercure Hotel Sheffield Parkway S60 5BD
8. 12th February Holiday Inn York YO24 1QF
9. 16th March Mount Pleasant Hotel Doncaster DN11 0HW
10. PGDs: Empowering pharmacy technicians to provide services evening workshop 3^rd February Holiday Inn York YO24 1QF
11. NHS Pharmacy contraception service: delivering effective consultations to initiate contraception evening workshop12^th February York Sports Club YO30 5RE

If you can’t make a face to face event and would like to join our local team online then we also have these events available between now and the end of October

• 24^th September Supporting people living with dementia  with Matt Auckland and Debbie Needham – this is your last chance to attend this event. No more are planned.
• 29^th September Optimising infection management with Oliver Fillingham and Kristeen Turner
• 30^th September The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and covert administration of medicines – Matt Auckland and Debbie Needham with local expert support
• 30^th September Depression: Having meaningful conversations with Amy Lake and Chris Bonsell
• 15^th October Deprescribing with Kristeen Turner and Debbie Needham
• 20^th October 9:30am to 1:30pm online NHS Pharmacy First: Clinical assessment- essential skills online with Dr Phil Xiu, Paul Jenks and Debbie Needham
• 3 Nov. NHS Pharmacy Contraception service, panel discussion.
• 6 Nov. Reflective practice online workshop.
• 6, 11 & 19 Nov. Emergency contraception.
• 18 & 25 Nov. Depression: Having meaningful conversations.
• 24 Nov. Preparing to train as an independent prescriber.
• 25 Nov. Academic writing and reflective practice.
• 25 Nov. Weight management: Prescribing perspectives, panel discussion.

You can find a full portfolio of all of our events nationally here: Full access to all national workshops

I have attached a one page update of various other resources to this email so please get in touch if you would like to chat about how we can support you and your teams with local learning opportunities in your workplaces.

Kind regards
Debbie
deborah.needham@cppe.ac.uk