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The Department of Health has announced plans to increase pharmacists' and nurses' prescribing powers throughout the UK, following last year's informal consultation (C&D, December 4, p4).
Issued jointly by the DoH and MHRA, the consultation on pharmacist prescribing proposes allowing independent prescribing after training and within an individual's area of professional competence, eg during medication reviews or hospital discharges, or for acute or long-term conditions. Training will be provided by accredited higher education institutes against an outline curriculum to be developed by the RPSGB and PSNI.
The proposal for nurses involves an expansion of extended formulary nurse prescribing to encompass certain conditions from a specific or full formulary, or any condition from a limited...