Use this learning about managing symptoms of constipation 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 enable myself and my team support to people with constipation to make appropriate lifestyle and treatment choices in line with recent MHRA regulations.

Why this learning is relevant to my role?

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 others that show how you will be able to apply your learning in practice.

• What will you and your team do to support patients seeking advice about constipation and laxatives, and to identify patients at risk of more serious conditions or misusing laxatives, who warrant support or referral?
• How will you make sure that members of your team know their role in how the pharmacy manages these issues?  
• What resources will you use (e.g. NHS website, healthy eating booklets, Beat Eating Disorders)?

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 customer/patient who benefited from my learning is... 

References, further reading and resources

• MHRA Drug Safety Update, August 2020. Stimulant laxatives (bisacodyl, senna and sennosides, sodium picosulfate) available over-the-counter: new measures to support safe use
  
• MHRA UK Public Assessment Report, August 2020. Over-the-counter stimulant laxatives: benefit-risk review
  
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Constipation
  
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Constipation in children
  
• NICE Clinical Guideline 99, 2010. Constipation in children and young people: diagnosis and management. Last update: 13 July 2017
  
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society – Pharmacy Guide, 2020. Dealing with over-the-counter stimulant laxatives in community pharmacy.