| PSNC proposes pharmacy’s future ... England with a three-phase programme for change to trigger further discussions between the opposing parties. Ultimately PSNC anticipates the majority of community pharmacists will be qualified as independent prescribers. The document states: “The proposals are set out in three phases, in recognition of the need to allow the wider NHS and community pharmacy to adopt them in a controlled manner that also allows tim ... Date: 09-02-2016 Categories: • News • Practice and policy |
| ‘We’ve got to keep shouting’ ... eet who you should speak to first. Wales has got it right - the GP surgeries are turning them away if they haven’t been to a pharmacy first. It’s all very well saying that pharmacists should become independent prescribers but surely it’s up to the Government to give that control? At the moment it’s chicken and egg – nobody is commissioning anything because there aren’t enough of them. So if we can get to a critical m ... Date: 24-10-2016 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| Community pharmacy closures raised by Public Accounts Committee ... ccess that patients have to primary care?’ Roughton pointed to the PhAS as a potential aid for any pharmacy in ‘exceptional circumstances’. Hillier asked if NHS England is promoting the idea of independent prescribers to which Roughton responded that by bringing clinical pharmacists into general practice, the Government will be investing in such training and education to ‘maximise skills’. ‘My local pharmacy gr ... Date: 09-03-2017 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| What are pharmacists’ resolutions and challenges for 2018? ... n Govind, a locum pharmacist based in the north of England, said: ‘We need to keep championing pharmacy and the role we play in reducing pressure on GPs and A&E and push for more support to train independent prescribers to work in community pharmacies and for their skills to be used by more commissioning.’ Improving services Whether it’s through the implementation of a dispensing robot or reorganisation, there ... Date: 16-01-2018 Categories: • News |
| RPS: NMS should include mental health medicines ... d into care pathways to support patients with mental health conditions. ‘More resources are also required for the existing pharmacist workforce to undertake advanced clinical skills and qualify as independent prescribers.’ NHS England spends around £17bn on mental health and community health services, which adds to the £52bn spent on acute services and helps more than two million patients every day, according to t ... Date: 30-05-2018 Categories: • Latest News • Mental health and addiction • News |
| Women in pharmacy: NPA chief pharmacist Leyla Hannbeck ... urrent state of community pharmacy? A I think it’s changing and moving towards a much more service-orientated sector. The pharmacists are acquiring more skillset and many of them are becoming independent prescribers. It makes me really happy because you see the profession doing all of these things that show the vast amount it can do. Q What changes would you like to see? A I want to ... Date: 18-10-2018 Categories: • News |
| Northern Irish pharmacy services 10 years behind UK counterparts, Government committee hears ... giving community pharmacy a more proactive role in public health and in the prevention and management of long-term conditions.’ In Scotland and Wales, pharmacists are encouraged to train to become independent prescribers in order to increase access to pharmacy as the first port of call for self-limiting conditions. Mr Greene argued that the idea of pharmacists prescribing autonomously for any condition within their c ... Date: 01-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| Women in pharmacy: RPS director of education Gail Fleming ... f your career. I would strongly advocate mentoring. Having a good mentor can make a difference as well as doing traditional leadership programmes. Q Do you think the sector needs more independent prescribers? A What we should be doing when we look at the healthcare workforce is make the best use of the skills everyone can bring. Pharmacists working as prescribers can improve access to medicine ... Date: 07-12-2018 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| Myth-busting: The biggest misconceptions about new pharmacist shortage powers ... anybody without it is suddenly able to dole out prescriptions?’ However, the protocols do not give pharmacists unbridled powers to write or change prescriptions if they have not already trained as independent prescribers. Instead, they give pharmacists the ability to dispense different doses, strengths or forms of a medicine, for example as a tablet rather than a capsule, if there is a severe shortage of a particu ... Date: 22-03-2019 Categories: • Analysis • News |
| GPhC launches consultation on draft guidance for independent prescribers Pharmacists are being asked to share their views on draft guidance for pharmacist independent prescribers, which has been issued by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). The guidance, released on 29 March, sets out nine key areas relating to safe and effective prescribing, including working in pa ... Date: 08-04-2019 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News |
| Women in Pharmacy: Consultant aesthetics practitioner Shikha Rishi ... tion? A Leadership training in all sectors is important but shouldn’t be a focus at university level. Leadership comes with experience. Q Do you think the sector needs more independent prescribers? A Yes, absolutely. Q How would you describe the current state of community pharmacy? A Services wise, it’s getting better but more acknowledgement is needed ... Date: 11-04-2019 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • More News • News • Views |
| Five things that make a ‘clinical’ pharmacist, according to NHS England ... ctices in this way have been referred to as ‘clinical’ pharmacists. But, as all pharmacists are clinically trained, what makes them different from their community colleagues? 1. They are independent prescribers Based on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) job specification for practice-based pharmacists, NHS England’s five-year framework for GP contract reform – published on 31 January – states in i ... Date: 15-04-2019 Categories: • News |
| NHS England to recruit ‘army’ of care home pharmacists and technicians ... d over the next five years as part of multidisciplinary teams in primary care networks,’ it added. The pharmacists involved in the scheme are supported by 18 months of training, including becoming independent prescribers, led by Health Education England (HEE). Specialist teams The new pharmacy teams are already in place in 14 parts of the country, where care home residents also have access to imp ... Date: 10-05-2019 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News |
| How to support children living with allergies ... prescribing and supplying prescription-only medicines for allergic conditions. This only applies to pharmacists who have successfully completed accredited training courses to become supplementary or independent prescribers. • Reviewing adherence and compliance with medications • Patient education on device technique for allergy related devices eg, nasal sprays, adrenaline auto-injectors, inhalers and spacers. The m ... Date: 20-05-2019 Categories: • Dermatology and wound care • Respiratory |
| On my patch – Scotland: ‘GP practices have taken some valuable pharmacists away from community’ ... independents can compete, because we don’t have the big budgets to do advertising and so on. Any particular pharmacy opportunities in Scotland? The number of us that are qualified as independent prescribers is important and I like to think that with the relaunch of the chronic medication service (CMS), we could do a bit more management of long-term conditions. That would be a good thing for us to do in ... Date: 12-07-2019 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| On my patch – Wales: ‘There is still that mindset that it’s all about GPs’ ... s still that mindset that it’s all about GPs. The politicians need to be mindful that there is a whole team out there in primary care now, be it paramedics, advanced nurse practitioners, nurses or independent prescribers like pharmacists. These are positions that are highly qualified and utilising that team will address some of the concerns that people have got about GP pressures. There are moves towards it, but t ... Date: 23-07-2019 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| PDA issues warning to practice pharmacists after several 'serious incidents' ... nt deaths were reported to the pharmacists’ union. The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) said it has become increasingly concerned about ‘unsafe practice’ that has emerged since the number of independent prescribers working in GP practices has risen. It has seen a number of ‘serious incidents’ recently and is in the ‘early stages of dealing with cases where patient deaths have been reported’, it confirmed. ... Date: 21-11-2019 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News |
| Covid-19: Support for care homes requires collaboration from across pharmacy sectors ... prescribed medicines to care homes, which includes facilitating end of life medication. Teams can also work with care homes pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in all aspects of medicines supply. independent prescribers will support the 'clinical review' of patients by 'working with care home clinical leads and MDTs to agree the prioritisation of residents.' Support for care homes will require ‘collaborative, cl ... Date: 26-05-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • Latest News • News |
| Scottish Government to launch independent prescribing career pathway for community pharmacists A formal career pathway designed to boost the numbers of independent prescribers working in community pharmacy will be launched in Scotland next year, the Scottish Government has said. Under the plans, contractors will receive funding for supporting newly-qualified pharmacists ... Date: 13-08-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| Aesthetics clinic: 'I wanted to widen my horizons and offer a unique service' ... does go wrong or there is something they are worried about or unhappy with, we want them to have full confidence that they can call that number at any time and speak to us. All the practitioners are independent prescribers and have done training to know the signs and symptoms of infection. If there are any concerns or something does go wrong, we will book the patient in for another consultation as soon as we can and ei ... Date: 17-08-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Skincare |
| APPG inquiry: Almost half of pharmacy owners could shut up shop next year ... by pharmacies and the ‘huge contribution’ they have made during the pandemic.Consult and take action to empower pharmacists to do more by providing more training resources, particularly training more independent prescribers and commissioning services that enable them to put their skills to best use.Reassess the value of pharmacy at both the heart of Government and within finance teams in the Department of Health and Soc ... Date: 14-12-2020 Categories: • News |
| Scottish pharmacists call for more involvement in vaccination programmes ... this will maximise efficiency and equity of access across the health and social care system.’ Increased funding The manifesto also called for extra funding to increase the number of pharmacist independent prescribers in Scotland. The number of independent prescribers is currently 100, according to the CPS, however the organisation’s ambition is to have one in each pharmacy in Scotland (1,258) by 2030. For t ... Date: 03-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| CPW urges next Welsh Government to roll out electronic prescriptions across country ... including boosting the number of prescribers. CPW said that the Government should aim to have one independent prescriber ‘in each community pharmacy by 2030, ensuring that all Community Pharmacist independent prescribers are properly utilised with fully commissioned services.’ Meanwhile, RPS said that the Government must ‘further integrate pharmacist independent prescribing into routine NHS care’ and also ensure t ... Date: 27-04-2021 Categories: • News |
| RPS calls for greater use of pharmacist independent prescribers in UK Pharmacist independent prescribers must be better utilised within healthcare systems, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has said. Today (27 April), the RPS published a list of recommendations that collectively urge governments ... Date: 27-04-2021 Categories: • News |
| Nearly one in five pharmacist vacancies in South West, survey finds ... in the community to use the full extent of their expertise. This will need more clinical services developed as part of the community pharmacy contract, and funding to boost the numbers of pharmacist independent prescribers.’ Date: 04-06-2021 Categories: • News |
| RPS details new education framework for newly qualified pharmacists ... gramme includes community pharmacy and allows early career pharmacists in Scotland to participate in a robust and supported training programme for all sectors of practice and allow them to develop as independent prescribers.’ Dean of NHS Health Education and Improvement Wales, Margaret Allan, added: ‘HEIW welcomes the launch of the RPS post-registration foundation curricula. The RPS curricula will underpin the Wales ... Date: 13-08-2021 Categories: • News |
| Ministers plan to ‘take action’ on overprescribing ... iew highlights, pharmacists are increasingly taking on greater responsibilities for helping to make sure that patients get the most appropriate treatment for their needs, including through working as independent prescribers.’. He added: ‘We are working with stakeholders to introduce major changes to the initial education and training of pharmacists so that in the future all pharmacists joining our register will be in ... Date: 23-09-2021 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacy and GPs must form a ‘single voice for primary care’ in ICSs ... t data sharing and facilitate the development of local services and the implementation of national services.An appropriate medico/legal framework is needed which recognises the role of pharmacists as independent prescribers and resolves issues relating to conflicts of interest. Date: 28-09-2021 Categories: • News |
| GPhC consider dropping experience requirement for independent prescriber training The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is consulting on possible changes to the current requirements for pharmacists to train as independent prescribers. The eight-week consultation — open from 28 September until 23 November — is seeking views from pharmacists on suggested changes to enable more pharmacists to begin independent prescriber trainin ... Date: 29-09-2021 Categories: • News |
| Reports that the Government plans to get pharmacists prescribing are potentially 'misleading' ... . Pharmacists on Twitter have said the comments suggest that they do not currently have the power to prescribe. However, as of May 2020, there were 8,806 registered independent prescribers in the UK, according to data sourced by the Pharmaceutical Journal. This means that at least 20% of pharmacists in the UK can already legally prescribe medication. https://t ... Date: 11-10-2021 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacy gets £15.9m funding for professional career development ... d to be put in place as soon as possible so that existing and future prescribers can use their qualifications to benefit patients. When new services are commissioned, the opportunities for pharmacist independent prescribers to improve patient care must always be considered and provided so patients see the right healthcare professional for their needs. 'Pharmacy teams are already under significant pressure and must b ... Date: 08-11-2021 Categories: • News • Practice and policy |
| Independent prescribing services double in Welsh health board ... se choice and provide better access for patients.’ In September, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) opened a consultation on changing to the current requirements for pharmacists to train as independent prescribers. The regulatory body is asking for views on the possible removal of the requirement for registered pharmacists to have at least two years of clinical practice experience before enrolling on an acc ... Date: 16-11-2021 Categories: • News |
| CPCS: Pharmacists need more scope to prescribe for minor ailments ... e Government and NHS organisations to ‘expand the role of community pharmacists in the management of minor illness to include the supply of certain POM through national PGDs and the use of Pharmacist independent prescribers in Community Pharmacies’. Alongside this, the bodies have jointly recommended that the referral mechanism for CPCS be improved by ‘additional investment in software technology’ so that it is more ... Date: 18-11-2021 Categories: • News |
| RPS calls for pharmacists to begin independent prescriber training sooner ... e, and experience to undertake the training, rather than the period someone had been on the register. Removing the two-year entry requirement will help support the increased demand for pharmacist independent prescribers and ‘support integration into multi-professional service models where patient access to pharmacist independent prescribers is part of routine care,’ RPS said. It comes after the RPS an ... Date: 23-11-2021 Categories: • News |
| Welsh CPO: All pharmacies to offer more clinical services to free up GPs ... how we need to fully utilise the skills of pharmacists and pharmacy teams,' he said. 'We're asking for much for in terms of clinical services, which includes training many more pharmacists to be independent prescribers so they can increase their skills and therefore increase the range of people and conditions they can treat.' He has called the changes ‘the most significant reform to community pharmacy contractua ... Date: 16-12-2021 Categories: • News |
| NHS to fund 327 pharmacists to become independent prescribers Community pharmacists in England can now apply for one of 327 NHS funded places on a pharmacist independent prescriber course, Health Education England (HEE) has announced. The places are available across two cour ... Date: 01-02-2022 Categories: • News |
| Clearing NHS backlog will require pharmacy input despite no mention in plan ... largest health profession, pharmacists have a clear role to play in the effort to clear the elective backlog, as part of the multidisciplinary team,’ she said. ‘With growing numbers of independent prescribers, there’s a clear opportunity to make the most of pharmacy professional practice to deliver high-quality patient care.’ However, she said that help from pharmacists will only be possible with a ‘ ... Date: 09-02-2022 Categories: • News |
| Majority of pharmacists support dropping experience requirement for IP training Pharmacists should not have to practise for two years after registration before training as independent prescribers, the majority of sector stakeholders told the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as part of a consultation. In a report discussing the results of its eight-week consultation on independen ... Date: 08-03-2022 Categories: • News |
| Javid: Pharmacists must be ‘at the heart’ of NHS reforms ... people living with long-term conditions so that we can manage growing demand on the NHS. ‘This must include fresh thinking regarding service commissioning, including making the most of pharmacist independent prescribers,’ she explained. She also called for ‘sustained investment’ in the pharmacy sector, as well as the ‘accelerated roll-out of read-write access to patient records for pharmacists wherever they may w ... Date: 10-03-2022 Categories: • News |
| Have we maximised the potential of pharmacist independent prescribers? Pharmacist independent prescribers are a growing force for change: in PCNs, general practice, and in community pharmacy. Should more training places now be made available; and should commissioners be making greater use of this clinica ... Date: 27-04-2022 Categories: • Analysis |
| GPhC drops experience requirement for independent prescriber training ... n independent prescriber course when they have demonstrated readiness, rather than simply completing a specified period.’ The aim of the changes is to help meet the demand for more pharmacist independent prescribers from health services and patients. Consultation feedback showed the ‘overwhelming majority’ of stakeholder organisations, including the chief pharmaceutical officers and RPS, were in favour o ... Date: 13-05-2022 Categories: • News |
| Chicken pox vaccine: 'Gone are the days of chicken pox parties' ... ing did you or other team members have to undergo? Kamsons organised a training which went through how to offer the vaccination via an SOP written by the company under the direction of our pharmacist independent prescribers. Depending on the age of the patient, you need to mix some of the vaccines and it’s a bit more intricate than prefilled flu injections, so the training was about understanding the vaccines rather tha ... Date: 23-05-2022 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Vaccination |
| Protected learning time would improve pharmacist wellbeing, RPS claims ... leaving the profession over the next 12-months,’ he added. He also called for ‘better workforce data’ and a ‘pharmacy workforce strategy’. Mr Shama also spoke of the potential of new pharmacist independent prescribers and the ‘need for investment in the current workforce’. Date: 25-05-2022 Categories: • News |
| UK commission on pharmacy professional leadership established ... nclude: Expanding clinical roles and greater professional autonomy for pharmacy professionals in the NHS. New initial education and training standards for pharmacists, which mean they will be independent prescribers from day one of registration from 2026. Regulatory and legislative changes that will impact on pharmacy professional practice. The potential of legislative changes to increase the contributions ... Date: 09-06-2022 Categories: • News |
| Absence of backfill funding for prescribing trainees 'disappointing', says PDA ... ovind, RPS England country board chair also told The Pharmacist that 'it is vital we invest in education and training if we are to make the most of the pharmacy workforce and unleash the potential of independent prescribers to support patient care. She added: 'Alongside a busy clinical workload, there needs to be a real shift in culture where pharmacists have time in their job plan to undertake education-related acti ... Date: 17-06-2022 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacists carried out half of non-medical prescribing in 2021 ... with 2,361,921 items prescribed by pharmacists last year compared to 1,962,615 in 2020. 'This trend of pharmacist prescribing is likely to continue as all newly-qualified pharmacists will be independent prescribers by 2026,' the CQC said in its Safer management of controlled drugs: Annual update 2021. In 2017, pharmacists accounted for only 29% of non-medical prescribing (487,036 items), the report says ... Date: 08-07-2022 Categories: • News |
| PSNI endorses pharmacist prescribing training without two-year wait ... they had 'demonstrated readiness' rather than have to first spend two years on the GPhC register. The aim of the change, the GPhC said at the time, was to help meet the demand for more pharmacist independent prescribers from health services and patients. Date: 09-08-2022 Categories: • News |
| Clinical skills training programme announced for community pharmacists ... ine. Pharmacists will have to initially complete training in history taking and identification of serious conditions before being assessed and allowed to move on to training in specific disciplines. independent prescribers will be able to move straight to the assessment stage. The specific modules in the training for community pharmacists include: Dermatology – covering wound care, rashes, common skin condition ... Date: 10-08-2022 Categories: • News |
| GPhC identifies ‘serious’ online pharmacy patient safety concerns ... concerns with their practice. It also has several ongoing investigations into other pharmacists working for online services. It explained that these pharmacists include those working as pharmacist independent prescribers for online services or who were dispensing medicines prescribed online. Some were the Responsible Pharmacist (RP) or the Superintendent Pharmacist (SI). The common themes in these cases include: ... Date: 16-08-2022 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacy diagnostic referral service proposed in plan for sector ... RPS Wales) is consulting on plans for the future of pharmacy in the country, including the establishment of a pharmacy diagnostic referral service. The referral service, which would see pharmacist independent prescribers (PIPs) leading on requests for diagnostic testing and investigations, has been proposed as part of 16 goals to be achieved by 2025, and now open for consultation until 11 September. The goals for ... Date: 01-09-2022 Categories: • News |
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