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Short courses for pharmacy professionals

Enhance your career in pharmacy with our interactive, online CPD short courses.

These low-cost short courses are ideal for qualified pharmacists and pharmacy technicians looking for an introduction into further study at the University of Bath. They are a great place to start if you are considering taking a postgraduate course and would like to experience what it's like to study with us.

Created by Bath’s academics and industry experts, the courses provide an opportunity to build on your existing knowledge. You’ll explore new concepts and principles that affect pharmacy practice today, helping to advance your professional and clinical skills.

Low-cost study

We offer five short courses across a diverse range of areas within pharmacy practice, with our Mental Health course completely free to study. The other four courses are £25 each, including the course material and a certificate of completion. Each course features reading materials, videos and quizzes.

Courses are online and can be studied at your own pace. They typically take around 2 - 3 hours to complete.

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Mental Health

This course will enable you to understand how pharmacy staff can play a role in supporting the mental health of their patients. Access this course and gain a certificate of completion for free.


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.

Pharmaceutical Public Health

The Pharmaceutical Public Health short course is ideal if you want to enhance your knowledge of public health. This course is £25, and you'll receive a certificate on completion.


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.

Answering Queries About Medicines

This course provides an overview of how pharmacy professionals can ensure they are able to answer questions about medicines. This course is £25 and you'll get a certificate on completion.


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)’.

Polypharmacy

The Polypharmacy course is designed to introduce you to Polypharmacy and deprescribing, and how this is relevant to your role as a pharmacist. The course is £25, including a certificate of completion.


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.

Interpreting Key Blood Test Results

This course will give you a comprehensive overview of how to interpret some of the key routine blood test results. This course is £25, including a certificate of completion.


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.

Interested in gaining a qualification with one of our postgraduate courses?

Search our courses Our postgraduate courses can be studied part time alongside work, and are suitable for pharmacists at all stages of their career.