Becoming an Independent Prescriber

Nurses

Pharmacists

Community Pharmacists – please head to Independent Prescribing – Avon and Wiltshire for additional resources

Paramedics

Physiotherapists

Podiatrists

Occupational Therapists

Occupational therapists are currently unable to become independent prescribers but can supply and administer medications under Patients specific direction (PSD) and Patient Group Direction (PGD)

Royal College of Occupational Therapists: Occupational therapy’s role in social prescribing

Dietitians

Currently Dietitians can become supplementary prescribers as well as being able to supply and administer medications under Patients specific direction (PSD) and Patient Group Direction (PGD)

Resources

Supervision

Prescribing Auditing

Other Resources

BNSSG ICB Specific

Registering as an Independent prescriber in BNSSG ICB
Medicine and prescribing – BNSSG Healthier Together
Resources for medicine and prescribing -BNSSG Healthier together
REMEDY: BNSSG formulary
STOPSTART tool BNSSG
If you would like to get in touch with the Medicine Optimisation team, email: medicines-optimisation@nhs.net

Other

External courses/resources that may require a subscription fee

E-learning with PrescQIPP

E-learning with PrescQIPP – PrescQIPP is a Skills for Care Endorsed Provider, all their courses are CPD
Anticholinergic burden
Anticoagulation: Stroke prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
Asthma
Chronic heart failure in adults
Dependence Forming Medications
Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community: course 1
Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community: course 2
Medicines use in care homes: course 1
Medicines use in care homes: course 2
Medicines use in care homes: course 3
Optimising medicines for adults with type 2 diabetes
Polypharmacy and deprescribing
Practice medicines co-ordinators (new 2020)
Reducing opioid prescribing in chronic pain

Yellow Card

E-learning modules for pharmacists

E-learning for Health

To be able to access these you will need to register for an NHS OpenAthens account. Please visit NICE’s OpenAthens Eligibility Checker to see if you are eligible for an account. If you are, there is a simple NHS OpenAthens Registration For m to complete.

Other eLearning

SCRIPT: Primary Care – An eLearning programme aiming to improve therapeutics knowledge among primary care staff. The programme consists of modules covering a range of therapeutic topics relating to prescribing and medicines safety. Free with an NHS.uk or NHS.net address Further information
Safe Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding – The collaboration between BPS Assessment and the MHRA Safer Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Consortium has resulted in a brand new eLearning resource for healthcare professionals.
Specialist Pharmacy Service. Training resources in pregnancy – An extensive range of training and guidance to help decision making about the use of medicines in pregnancy.
Personalised Care Institute – Shared Decision Making – Level 3

Webinars

Prescribing conferences

20 Jan –Clinical Pharmacology Update for Nurse Prescribers
6 Feb – A Practical Guide to Effective Nurse Prescribing in End of Life Care
25 Feb – Nurse Prescribing in Paediatrics & Child Health
19 March – Optimising Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (ePMA) in Hospitals
19 March – Controlled Drugs: Ensuring the Safer Management, Diversion & Abuse, Prescribing and Use

Other resources

BMJ – Drug and therapeutics bulletin
BNF is available as an app via your app store. You can find out more via NICE’s NMP webpage.
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy – Prescribing
College of Paramedics – Medicines and Independent Prescribing
The College of Podiatry – Non-medical prescribing by podiatrists
Department of Health – Prescribing by Non-Medical Healthcare Professionals
Department of Health & Social Care – Good for you, good for us, good for everybody: a plan to reduce overprescribing to make patient care better and safer, support the NHS and reduce carbon emissions
General Pharmaceutical Council – Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
HCPC – Prescribing and support assurance framework
Health and Care Professions Council – Prescribing
Health and Care Professions Council – Standards for prescribing
Health and Care Professions Council – High level principles for good practice in remote consultations and prescribing
HEE – Prescribing Competency Implementation Guidance for Mental Health
NICE – Non-medical prescribing
NICE – Shared decision making
NHS England – Non-medical prescribing by allied health professionals.
NHS England – Consultation on proposed amendments to the list of controlled drugs that podiatrists can independently prescribe across the United Kingdom
Nursing and Midwifery Council – Standards for prescribers
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee – Who can prescribe what?
Royal College of Nursing – Non-medical prescribing
Royal College of Nursing – Patient Specific Directions (PSDs) and Patient Group Directions (PGDs) login required
Royal College of Nursing – Prescribing safely under Covid-19 login required
Royal College of Nursing – Prescribing in pregnancy login required
Royal college of Nursing – Advanced Level of Nursing Practice and Care of Pregnant and Postnatal Women
Royal College of Nursing and Royal Pharmaceutical Society – Professional Guidance on the Administration of Medicines in Healthcare Settings
Royal College of Nursing and Royal Pharmaceutical Society – Guidance of Prescribing, Dispensing, Supplying and Administration of Medicines
Royal Pharmaceutical Society – A competency framework for all prescribers
Royal Pharmaceutical Society – Professional Guidance: Expanding Prescribing Scope of Practice
Specialist Pharmacy Services – Medicines Advice: local contact details
Yellow Card Reporting Site
Association for Prescribers