Use this learning about addressing inappropriate polypharmacy to make an entry in your revalidation record.

GPhC Q1. What are you planning to learn?

Tip: The GPhC expects this section to include three things – a learning objective,
why this learning is relevant to your role and how this learning will benefit the people who use your services.

Learning objective: e.g. To prepare myself and my team to get more involved in addressing inappropriate polypharmacy.

Why this learning is relevant to my role: (For you to add)

How it will benefit the people who use my services: (For you to add)

GPhC Q2. How are you planning to learn it?

Tip: This section is for the learning activities you are going to do. Completing this module is one learning activity but make sure you include other activities that show how you will be able to apply your learning in practice.

• What will you and your team do to support patients after medication reviews
  and also to identify patients at risk and refer them for a review?
• How will you make sure that members of your team know their role in your plan?
• What resources will you use (e.g. polypharmacy guidelines)?

GPhC Q3. Give an example of how this learning has benefited the people using your services

Tip: Here you need to include statements about how you envisage your team and/or your patients and/or local general practices will benefit from your learning. Also include an example of how someone actually benefited:

e.g. This learning will benefit my team by...

e.g. An example of a patient (unnamed) who benefited from my learning is...

e.g. An example of another pharmacist who benefited from my learning is...