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New to risk management?

Build a clear, practical framework for identifying, assessing and managing risk across medicines and medical device services — the kind of systematic thinking inspectors expect to see in place.

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Doing your Revalidation?

A structured, evidence-based course you can log against your CPD record, with practical tools you can apply directly to your own pharmacy's risk profile.

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Preparing for an FTP case?

If risk management or incident handling forms part of your case, this course supports genuine reflection and remediation, with a template tool that can support you to evidence directly.

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Why do this course?

Risk management is one of those areas that looks straightforward on paper and falls apart in practice. I saw it constantly as an inspector: pharmacies with a risk assessment that existed (if it existed at all), but hadn't been looked at since it was created, or that covered obvious risks while missing the ones specific to that pharmacy's actual services.

This course gives you a proper framework for identifying risk, assessing it honestly, and doing something about it, rather than just documenting that a risk exists and moving on. Whether you're setting up a new service, taking on an existing one, or just want your current approach to hold up to scrutiny, the same discipline applies.

What you will learn

You'll work through how to identify hazards specific to your pharmacy and services, how to score risk so it's comparable rather than just a gut feeling, and how to turn that into something you actually use day to day, not a document that sits in a folder.

The course comes with a free template framework you can use to map out and manage your own risks, built to be adapted to whatever services you're running rather than a one-size-fits-all checklist.


Curriculum

  Introduction
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  Identifying Hazards
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  Measuring Risk
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  Managing Risk
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  Implement
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Shahzad Ahmad, course instructor

Your instructor

Former GPhC inspector and pharmacy consultant. I walk you through a practical framework for identifying, assessing and managing risk, built from what I actually saw work and not work across the pharmacies I inspected.

Read more about me here: About - My Pharmacy Standards