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EDX/20/1154
Date of prep: December 2020

Prescribing information and
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£16 million to introduce digital prescribing in hospitals

18th November 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Sixteen hospitals across England will receive a share of nearly £16 million to introduce electronic prescriptions.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Prescribing

Government bill to increase professions who can prescribe

13th February 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Bill introduces new safety measures, increases the professions that can prescribe low-risk medicines and allows hospitals to develop personalised medicines.

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Dilemma: Is this GP pharmacist incompetent and unsafe?

23rd July 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

In the second in a series of professional dilemmas that will follow a pharmacists new to working in general practice.

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Filed Under: Professional Dilemmas Tagged With: Dilemma, GP Pharmacists, GP pharmacy, independent prescribing, Non-medical prescribing, Prescribing, professional dilemma

Dilemma: Is this independent prescribing pharmacist practising unsafely?

26th June 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Pharmacists have had the opportunity to train as independent prescribers since 2006. Since then many pharmacists have achieved the qualification. This is the first in a series of professional dilemmas that will seek to understand how pharmacists would approach certain situations in relation to being an independent prescriber.

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Filed Under: Professional Dilemmas Tagged With: Ethical dilemma, independent prescribing, Pharmacist prescribing, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, Prescribing, professional dilemma

Prescribing in community pharmacy: The next big thing or a risky business?

18th June 2019 by PIP editor 1 Comment

Make no mistake pharmacist independent prescribing can easily become a very risky and potentially dangerous activity if the level of competence of the prescriber is not sufficient.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: independent prescribing, Johnathan Laird, Pharmacist prescribing, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, Prescribing

£1 million investment in Scottish community pharmacy prescribing clinics

4th June 2019 by PIP editor 1 Comment

Community pharmacy contractors in Scotland can once again avail of funding to run community pharmacy independent prescribing clinics. The total value of money allocated for the financial year 2019/20 remains unchanged from last year at £1 million.

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Filed Under: News, Scotland Tagged With: community pharmacy, community pharmacy Scotland, independent pharmacy, Jonathan Burton, Matt Barclay, Pharmacist prescribing, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, Prescribing

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