We publish recommendations and resources, together with a host of other material for the benefit of our users.

An SPS Quality Assurance (QA) bite size learning event that explores Standard Operating Procedures as part of the quality management system.
A slide deck summarising SPS outputs and resources. It should be distributed to relevant healthcare professionals and their teams.
A resource collating the latest medication safety communications and publications to inform, support and inspire medication safety improvements.
Short videos explaining how to planning for the development of new, or review of existing Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
Short explanatory videos about the supply and administration of medicines under Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
Short videos explaining Patient Group Directions (PGDs) and medicines mechanisms, and their use in practice.
Understanding where PGDs can and cannot be used for the supply and/or administration of P and GSL medicines helps ensure correct legal mechanisms in practice.
Understanding when PGDs are an unsuitable mechanism for the supply and/or administration of medicines ensures an alternative legal framework is applied.
Understanding when PGDs are a suitable mechanism for the supply and/or administration of medicines ensures an appropriate legal framework for service provision.
Understand what a Patient Group Direction (PGD) is and how it is used in clinical practice.
Informing and supporting decision making when considering the most appropriate legal mechanism for administering contrast agents in imaging services.
Whether a healthcare professional (HCP) can prepare and/or administer contrast supplied by another HCP under a PGD will depend on a range of factors.
We shared information on the implementation of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices in prisons with updates on Methasoft integration and FP10 EPS rollout
A practical discussion between specialist and generalist pharmacy professionals about identifying heart failure and optimising treatment in primary care.
SPS are presenting and will have a stand at the Pharmacy Show 2024
An SPS Quality Assurance (QA) bite size learning event that explores Standard Operating Procedures as part of the quality management system.
Practical application of population health supporting pharmacy professionals undertaking structured medication reviews
Healthcare professionals in non-specialist services managing patients prescribed clozapine should implement safe practice principles to prevent potential harms.
A slide deck summarising SPS outputs and resources. It should be distributed to relevant healthcare professionals and their teams.
A resource collating the latest medication safety communications and publications to inform, support and inspire medication safety improvements.
The Web Assistant will help you to answer questions about medicines in patients with swallowing difficulties.
A list of new product evaluations that are freely available to NHS staff via the internet
E-learning developed by SPS in partnership with UKHSA, HEE and eLfH to support professionals who use, develop, authorise, review or update PGDs.
These are the detailed and easy read summary reports of the northern pharmacy technical services (PTS) workforce project. They provide a critical analysis of the…
SPS have developed a template audit tool to support organisations in auditing aspects of PGD development and use.
An audit tool based on the RPS Standards in Secure Environments is shared along with the national baseline audit undertaken in 2018
Advice on the use of Patient Group Directions (PGDs) to supply or administer a medication which is part of a clinical trial, study or pilot
This paper lays down the system under which a pharmaceutical company wishing to supply medicinal products to the NHS hospital service is assessed if a…
This audit document is intended to be used to audit Pharmacy aspects of the safe administration of intrathecal chemotherapy, as part of the EL(97)52 Audit…