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Within the new contract negotiations, it was agreed with the Department of Health and the NHS Confederation that any Higher Education Institution (HEI) should be able to provide training and competency assessments for the MUR service. A national competency framework is used as the basis for these assessments.
There are a number of providers who run courses and/or competency assessments. Additionally some academic institutions that provide post-graduate clinical programmes, such as diplomas, have ensured their courses develop and test the skills of students in order to meet the requirements of the MUR competencies.
For those pharmacists who have existing skills in this area of practice, the completion of any course prior to undertaking a competency assessment is not obligatory, i.e. pharmacists may put themselves through a competency assessment whenever they feel fit to do so.
Click on the links below for information on available courses and institutions providing competency assessments:
MUR Courses with Assessment
Skills for MURs (C+D, Medway School of Pharmacy and PSNC) (formerly Skills for the Future)
WCPPE/Welsh School of Pharmacy
Postgraduate courses which include MUR assessment
Aston University - Short courses (Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy in the Community (Starting Work with GPs) and Medicines Management Certificates) and Diplomas (Diploma in Clinical Community Pharmacy and Diploma in Primary Care Clinical Pharmacy)
University of Bath - Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and MSc
Keele University - Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Community Pharmacy and Pharmacy (Clinical Pharmacy for Medicines Management) Short Course
University of Leeds, School of Healthcare - Postgraduate Programme in Pharmacy Practice
Queen's University Belfast - PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Community Pharmacy programme
Assessments only
University of Manchester/CPPE Online assessment
University of Reading
Courses without Assessments
Pharmaceutical Resource Network
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