Practical advice and guidance for RPS members on:
Starting prescribing
Find a prescribing course; apply for an IP course; funding; finding a DPP; becoming a DPP.
Expanding your practice scope
Considerations for when you may plan to expand your scope of prescribing practice into further clinical areas, additional medicines or in a new area of work.
Guidance on legal and ethical enquiries
Writing private prescriptions; prescribing and dispensing medications; signing repeat prescriptions; non-prescribers authorising prescriptions; considerations writing prescriptions.
Specific medicines or situations
Advice on unlicensed medicines; prescribing controlled drugs; using guidelines to support in prescribing; prescribing for patients travelling.
Ethical dilemmas/problems
Specific questions or problems, including: prescribing for family members; prescribing errors; workplace pressures.
Developing skills/knowledge as a prescriber
Find a mentor for prescribing practice after qualification; revalidation advice for prescribers; expanding practice scope; requirements for becoming a DPP.
Clinical queries
Medicines interactions for newly prescribed drugs or drugs patients are on; drug interactions with herbal products; using clinical guidelines (both clinical and national) for appropriate prescribing.
Setting up a prescribing service
Setting up your own prescribing service; professional considerations.