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Postgraduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing Practice

Award Attendance Study Duration Start Domestic fees International fees
PG Cert On-Campus Part-time 1 September find out find out

About Postgraduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing Practice, PG Cert - at University of South Wales

This course has been developed to reflect the advanced levels of knowledge and skills required to become an Independent Prescriber.

Fundamental to this course is that pharmacists, midwives, nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists will be taught alongside one another and assessed using the same assessment criteria.

The course will follow the outline curricula of the accrediting bodies the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).

This course has been designed to facilitate practitioners in achieving prescribing competency as set out by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) document "A competency framework for all prescribers", and in line with the Standards for prescribing set out by the respective regulators."


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