Hours of learning: 2

Tutor(s) Miss Katie BlairMiss Karen Dolan, Pharmacy Advisor, HSCB

Aim
To equip participants with the knowledge required to provide a comprehensive service to patients seeking healthcare advice regarding travel.

Intended learning outcomes
Having completed this workshop you should be able to:

• Provide preventative advice and appropriate products for various travel-related conditions such as malaria, traveller’s diarrhoea, insect bites, travel sickness and travel-related deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
• Advise on sun protection
• Make recommendations regarding the content of first aid kits and travelling with medicines
• Identify and consider the needs of individual travellers, having awareness of special categories such as children, pregnant females and older adults
• Appreciate how the pharmacist can contribute to preparing people for healthy travel.

Additional information
This one night regional course is ‘open access’ which means that pharmacists and pharmacy technicians need not apply to attend but simply turn up at the venue on the given date. Please note the start time of 7.30pm.