Ask Your Pharmacist (AYP) Week provides a platform for pharmacy public awareness activities across the UK.  The theme for this year’s campaign is “Let’s Talk About Medicines Safety”.  It is about explaining to patients the risks associated with using medicines inappropriately; and encouraging them to talk with the pharmacy team about safe use.

Why take part?

• Improve safe medicines use amongst your patients
• Evidence for inspectors of your commitment to patient safety
• Raise awareness and appropriate uptake of the NHS medicines advice services available in your pharmacy
• Achieve positive publicity for your pharmacy locally
• Re-inforce the message that community pharmacists are accessible and approachable medicines experts
• The NPA is making free of charge resources available to you

Read our latest blog by the team at Lincolnshire Co-op who reveal why they are taking part in Ask Your Pharmacist Week

Free of charge campaign materials are now available – download using links below

Other campaign assets will be available a little closer to the time, including:

• Digital assets – template social media posts, infographics
• Posters to download in larger sizes
• PowerPoint presentations & talk notes for community talks
• Materials to help you conduct an audit of how often, and in what form, you discuss medicines safety with patients.

You can use the materials at any time but it will have a bigger impact if you do it during Ask Your Pharmacist week (5-12 November) because it will coincide at that time with media activity organised centrally by the NPA.

For more information, please contact: independentsvoice@npa.co.uk