The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7244 p502
12 April 2003

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Prescriber training to start by summer

Universities in England are set to offer training in supplementary prescribing for pharmacists, with courses expected to start by the summer.

Keele University is planning a supplementary prescribing course that will run alongside its existing postgraduate programme in prescribing studies. Those taking the supplementary prescribing course will be able to earn credits towards a master of science degree. Professor Stephen Chapman, head of medicines management at Keele, said that some of the course sessions will be run jointly with nurse prescriber training. The first pharmacists are expected to start training in the summer.

The School of Pharmacy, University of London, and St Bartholomew school of nursing and midwifery, City University, London, are creating a joint lecturer post in prescribing in health care. The post holder will teach prospective supplementary prescribers at both institutions, starting this spring. The two universities collaborated on an extended nurse prescribing course and have a joint lecturer post in medicines risk management together with the academic pharmacy unit at Barts and the London NHS Trust. The new prescribing lecturer will also be associated with the academic pharmacy unit.