CPD Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists

Qualification requirements

• Alternative qualifications considered

  Entrants must:

  • Be a registered pharmacist with the GPhC or the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
  • Be in good standing with their regulator
  • Have relevant experience in a UK pharmacy setting
  • Have identified an area of clinical practice in which to develop their prescribing skills
  • Demonstrate the ability to recognise, understand and articulate the skills and attributes required by a prescriber
  • Have identified a Designated Prescribing Practitioner with training and experience appropriate to their role. This may be demonstrated by adherence to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance (2019). The DPP must have agreed to provide supervision, support and shadowing opportunities for the student, and be familiar with the GPhC’s requirements of the programme and the need to achieve the learning outcomes.
  • Have a DBS and appropriate liability insurance in place for the period of learning in practice.

  Students will be required to provide acceptable evidence of each of the above and may be interviewed and letters of support may be required from employers and/or line-managers and/or other healthcare professionals as necessary and appropriate.