Independent Prescribing!~

[Titch]

independent prescribing pharmacist-

Privately you can prescribe anything except for CDs, but to presribe on the NHS you need to have funding, which is realy hard to get at the moment. (guidlines say can prescribe only according to your competences but that only means know what you're doing)

the pharmacist would be totally responsible for their own prescribing

It's not really a case of funding but you would need to be allocated a prescribing budget. This could be as an attachment to a GP practice's budget or via your own individual budget.
Community based nurses annotate their prescriptions with the practice code so what they prescribe is costed back to the practice the patient is registered with. Perhaps this is a route to approach for community pharmacists prescribing?

If you have close working relationships with a GP (which I would expect as you need a mentor to undertake the training to be a prescriber) then I do not see why they would not support you prescribing for their patients via their budget. Obviously all this would have to be presented to the PCT as a proposal.

From memory, my university application form required me to have the approval of the non-medical prescribing lead at the PCT, confirming that I would have access to a prescribing budget on qualification.

[Ama2007]

so.......
is independent prescribing an agreement between whom???

patient and pharmacist only
patient,GP,pharmacist

please make it clear

thanks

[Partizannka]

As far as I understand only doctors can be granted the rights of independent prescription.. and even them, not all the specialists...

[BellaNotte]

so.......
is independent prescribing an agreement between whom???

patient and pharmacist only
patient,GP,pharmacist

please make it clear

thanks

From what i've read, supplementary prescribing is an agreement between the independent prescriber, supplement prescriber and patient to implement a CMP (clinical management plan) whereas independent prescribing , say if a pharmacist was an independent prescriber, will be competent in a certain area of practice/therapeutics and can prescribe any drugs (except CD's and unlicensed meds for now) within their level of competence. Not sure how accurate that is however..

[BellaNotte]

Hmm only just realised how old that post was i quoted.. nevermind.

[Nikolai]

Supplementary prescribers can prescribe CD's within a CMP.