This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Questionnaires were circulated to delegates attending a series of evening educational meetings around asthma and national guidelines. As there is a growing plethora of combination inhalers, including...
The National Health Service (NHS) published their Long Term Plan in 2019. It focuses on how the health service can develop over the next ten years with advances in medicine, changing population health...
Acute respiratory tract infection (RTI) is one of the most common presentations in primary care (National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE), 2008). RTIs include the common cold, sore throat,...
In order to provide some additional contextualisation, I will describe my own clinical practice and how prescribing fits this. I studied full time for an FdSc in Paramedic Science, followed by part...
In 2015, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) was commissioned to develop an educational programme for CPs in Essex, which combined 10 sessions of online learning with one day of face-to-face teaching...
The first step in safety-netting involves a formal, holistic assessment of whether it is appropriate to send the patient home to monitor themselves, rather than arranging for the patient to undergo a...
Prescribers can be called to account for their actions by (Figure 1):.
‘Trainees would benefit from explicit training in clinical (diagnostic) reasoning, patient safety, human factors, critical thinking, managing uncertainty, cognitive heuristics and biases, test...
Prescribing legislation in the UK is some of the most liberal worldwide (Kroezen et al, 2011), requiring robust safeguards to ensure patient safety is not compromised. Errors in prescribing are...
Shared decision-making, a key component of universal personalised care in The NHS Long Term Plan (NHS, 2019), aims to provide people with the same choice and control over their mental and physical...
As a registered nurse and independent prescriber, I am accountable for all of my prescribing actions. My definition of accountability is simple: being responsible and answerable to yourself and others...
Journal of Prescribing Practice shares the latest clinical expertise and professional guidance for non-medical prescribers. Our goal is to provide the knowledge to help you prescribe more efficiently and effectively.
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