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Take part in research. 

You can now begin the INFORMED Instrument here: https://vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5u8wSlacOPPVMOy?Source=Community 

Do it to earn one hour CPD spread over a week (3-parts each about 20-25 mins long separated by 3 days) and to be in with a chance to win one of 5 x £20 Amazon vouchers.

Why?

Well, it's a labour of love to start with....

Academically, it's my attempt to understand the reality of working in community pharmacy. What it is like - when it comes to clinical decision-making. And then specifically clinical decision-making regarding undiagnosed sleep disorders.

I anticipate you may experience commercial expectations, patient expectations and be confronted with limits to your knowledge and have views around the relevance of guidelines. And whether you consider certain aspects your role.

Why? (Again?!)

How this all works is not well understood and it is (in my view) crucially important. I consider community pharmacy to be the 'coal face' of healthcare. Or in other words 'where the rubber meets the road'!

Having spent a little (and I do mean a little) time behind the scenes in community pharmacy I can see that it is brutal, relentless and exacting.

I want to help. Help first by understanding, then communicating and finally be delivering specific tailor-made education and tools to help you in community pharmacy - help people. Sleep issue sufferers at their first interaction with a healthcare professional.

So, forgive me if I 'bang on' about INFORMED. I'm doing it to get your eyeballs on it. To get you to help me - to help you.

You can then help more people with suspected sleep disorders in an evidence-based way that progresses them - and makes a viable business for you.

Adrian Zacher
CEO of the BSPSS