Independent prescribing

Number of independent prescribers rose by 37% in 2023, reveals NHS workforce survey

Responses to the annual survey recorded 1,494 full-time equivalent independent prescriber roles, up 37% on the 1,087 recorded the year before.…

Management of overprescribing of oral nutritional supplements in a community hospital

Malnutrition costs the UK an astounding £23.5bn annually1, an increase from £19.5bn reported by the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) in 2015, with half of this amount spent on its treatment in older people aged over 65 years2. Dehydration and malnutritio…

Reflective practice for pharmacist prescribers

How reflection can be used as a tool for improving prescribing practice.…

Director for RPS Scotland wins FIP Congress oral presentation prize

Laura Wilson said she hopes her presentation helped to encourage pharmacists “from across the world to consider how hospital clinical pharmacy services can be transformed to enhance patient care”.…

Understanding human factors in patient safety when prescribing

How human factors can help in developing safe prescribing practices and reduce error risk.…

Prescribing in community pharmacy: will it fail or flourish?

With so few pharmacists working in prescribing roles within community pharmacy and so many barriers to becoming a prescriber, how will those who qualify after 2026 be supported to prescribe?…

More than a half of foundation year training sites do not have a DPP for 2025, reveals local survey

Exclusive: Results from a poll carried out by the Black Country Integrated Care Board showed that 36 of 68 foundation training sites did not yet have a designated prescribing practitioner in place.…

Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when treating sertraline sexual dysfunction

The first of a new series of articles exploring real-world dilemmas that pharmacist prescribers encounter in clinical practice.…

IT system for independent prescribing pathfinder programme ready for rollout, says NHS England

More than 200 community pharmacy pathfinder sites across England can now start to use the new electronic prescribing system for the Independent Prescribing in Community Pharmacy Pathfinder Programme.…

Health psychology and advanced communication skills for prescribers

An introduction to the principles of health psychology that can be applied during consultations with patients.…