First supplementary prescribing programme given accreditation
The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has awarded its first accreditation for an education and training programme to prepare pharmacists for supplementary prescribing.
After formally adopting criteria for accrediting such programmes at its
meeting on 6 August, the Council went on to accept the recommendation
of an accreditation team that the programme developed by the University
of Keele should receive accreditation.
Programmes developed by other higher education institutions are expected
to receive accreditation shortly. Accreditation teams have already visited
four other institutions, with further visits due in the near future.
The institutions currently seeking accreditation are spread widely across
Britain.
The Council has also agreed that pharmacists who successfully complete
an accredited programme should be awarded a “practice certificate
in supplementary prescribing”. Their entries in the Register of
Pharmaceutical Chemists will be annotated to indicate their designation
as supplementary prescribers. There will be a one-off charge of £35
to cover part of the administrative cost.
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