A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NON MEDICAL PRESCRIBING


9.00 Registration

9.30 Chair’s opening remarks

9.35 Keynote address: Extension of prescribing for non-medical professionals
• DH perspective and background
• Recent developments
• The challenges
• Implications for patients, clinicians, managers and organisations
Gul Root Principal Pharmaceutical Officer Department of Health

10.05 Questions and Answers


10.15 Supporting CPD
• Ensuring the development and maintenance of competency levels
• What there is and where to get it from
• Information on national research of non-medical prescribers
Dr Molly Courtenay Reader in Prescribing and Medicines Management, Reading University

10.45 Questions and Answers

10.55 Coffee


11.25 Workshop 1
Pharmacy Standards for Prescribers
Heidi Wright Head of Quality Improvement, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

11.25 Workshop 2
Standards of Proficiency For Nurse/Midwifery Prescribing
• Standards for education and training
• Criteria for entry to programmes
• Assessment
• Ethical standards for practice
Liz Plastow Professional Adviser, Specialist Community Public Health Nursing, Standards and Registration Directorate, Nursing and Midwifery Council

12.10 Prescribing Futures

• Reflection on what we have learned so far from non medical prescribing
• Implementation challenges
• What do we need to do to take this forward locally?
Beth Taylor National Project Lead, Pharmacists with Special Interests, Primary Care Contracting Team and Joint Director, Community Health London, Eastern and South East Specialist Pharmacy Services


12.45 Questions and Answers

1.00 Lunch


2.00 Workshop 3
Supporting AHPs
• Training opportunities
• Minimum entry requirements
• Supporting ‘smaller’ professional groups
Alison Hogg Senior Lecturer, University of Derby

2.00 Workshop 4
Supporting Nurses

• Lessons from Nurse Supplementary Prescribing and EFNPs to date
• Controlled Drugs
• Levels of prescribing authorisation
• Different prescribing patterns
Lisa Eve Nurse (General Practice) & Non Medical Prescribing Lead, South West London SHA and Seminar Leader, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, London

2.00 Workshop 5
Supporting Pharmacists

• Lessons from Pharmacist Supplementary Prescribing to date
• Education and Training requirements
Dr Wendy Clyne Assistant Director, Medicines Partnership Programme, National Prescribing Centre

2.00 Workshop 6
Supporting Managers

• Identifying the need for extended prescribing
• Making the case
• Making it happen
• Evaluating
Ian Bramley Non Medical Prescribing Lead, South West Workforce Development Confederation

2.45 Workshop 7
Law and Ethics

• Legal considerations for NMP
• Ethical considerations for NMP
• Legal responsibility and accountability
• Risk Management in NMP
Bond Solon – The Legal Training Consultancy

2.45 Workshop 8
Consultation Skills

• Awareness
• Decision making
• Communication
Pauline Kingston Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Course Leader for NMP, Homerton School of Health Studies, Cambridge

2.45 Workshop 9
Implementation

• Delivering NMP in your own organisation
Ian Bramley Non Medical Prescribing Lead, South West Workforce Development Confederation

2.45 Workshop 10
Understanding PACT Data

Speaker TBC

3.30 Tea

3.50 Clinical Governance

• Ensuring patient safety is paramount
• A robust CG Framework
• Commission on Human Medicine (formerly Committee on Safety of Medicines)
• Access to patients’ records
Lucy Warner Associate Director, Primary Care, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team
Heidi Wright Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain


4.15 Questions and Answers

4.20 Chair’s closing remarks

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