Non-Medical Prescribing Update

Course Overview

This interactive update enables Non-Medical Prescribers to refresh and expand their prescribing knowledge while discussing recent developments in practice. Activity-based learning encourages participants to revisit core pharmacological concepts, explore emerging issues and share best practice.

This Course is For

Advanced Clinical Practitioners holding a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification.

Course Capacity & Cost

• 20 places
• Organisational booking: £1,700
• Individual booking: £100 per person

Indicative Content

• Medicines optimisation
• Safe prescribing
• Complex prescribing decisions
• Pharmacodynamics
• Pharmacokinetics
• Drug interactions
• Polypharmacy
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Interpretation of abnormal blood results
• Weight loss medications
• Medicines misuse
• Remote prescribing
• Patient Group Directions (PGDs)
• Prescribing governance
• Drug calculations