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What makes appropriate prescribing?
Stephen Chapman, professor of prescribing studies at Keele University, gives his opinion
PMM 2006:PM1-2
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Prescribing needs a recognised model
Pharmacist prescribing is lacking a recognised national model that the health service understands. This is one of the emerging findings from a piece of research into pharmacist supplementary prescribing carried out by Amanda Evans, deputy head of medicines management and non-medical prescribing lead at Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust
PMM 2006:PM2
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How new prescribers can limit liability
The Department of Health working definition of independent prescribing was published in April. This definition is important because of the weight that is likely to attach to it when courts have to decide whether independent prescribers are meeting standards, Alison Gulliver, a solicitor at Capsticks, said at a conference on non-medical prescribing held at the Royal Society of Medicine in May 2006
PMM 2006:PM3
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Is this the beginning of the end for supplementary prescribing?
Independent prescribing became legal on 1 May 2006 with pharmacists in England being allowed to prescribe any licensed medicine (except Controlled Drugs) without clinical management plans
PMM 2006:PM3
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A new framework and accreditation process for membership of FPMM
The Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management (FPMM) was established in 2001 as a distinct semi-autonomous professional body within the College of Pharmacy Practice. It provides professional support for pharmacists in the UK, from any professional background, who are working, or are interested in working, in the specialist area of prescribing and medicines management
PMM 2006:PM4
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