Newly qualified independent prescribers should start prescribing immediately, say researchers
The recommendations were influenced by the concern that unlike doctors, pharmacists lack a performance list, so specific governance frameworks are necessary to guide them as they start to prescribe.
One interviewee said that if independent pharmacist prescribing “is to become mainstream within the English healthcare system”, commissioners, employers and individual prescribers should implement the recommendations
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Pharmacists who become newly qualified as independent prescribers "need to start prescribing immediately after qualifying" to build confidence and develop their competence, researchers have suggested.
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