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Is it necessary to have a non-medical prescriber’s qualification on their prescription forms?

April 26, 2017forms necessary non-medical prescriber prescription qualification

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Is it necessary to have a non-medical prescriber’s qualification on their prescription forms?

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The Department of Health (DH) guide – ‘Improving patients’ access to medicines: A guide to implementing nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing within the NHS in England’ states, in paragraph 96-97: “The dispensing pharmacist will need to be sure that the prescriber has qualified as a nurse or pharmacist independent prescriber. The prescription form will indicate whether a prescriber is a nurse or pharmacist independent prescriber”. Pre-printed FP10P prescription forms “will be overprinted to identify the type of independent prescriber e.g. Nurse Independent/Supplementary Prescriber”. (Annex E – DH guide ‘Improving patients’ access to medicines’). For the overprint specifications for computer-generated prescriptions please see the next question.