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Postgraduate Award in Professional Development Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

University of Worcester

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  • Qualification

    Professional Award

  • Location

    University of Worcester

  • Study mode

    Part time

  • Start date

    SEP-24

  • Duration

    6 months

Course summary

What makes Independent and Supplementary Prescribing at Worcester special?

The Independent and Supplementary prescribing course at Worcester gives you the knowledge and skills to improve patients’ experiences by enabling timely and prompt access to treatment and medication.

Our six-month course meets the national agenda to widen non-medical prescribing and increase innovative roles to develop, transform and sustain new ways of working. By building on your existing knowledge base and health assessment skills, autonomous practice and professional development are enhanced whilst prescribing safely, appropriately and cost-effectively in line with your professional code of conduct.

Prescribing courses at Worcester are accredited by the NMC and HCPC and are suitable for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals who meet the professional requirement to independently and supplementary prescribe from the BNF, BNF(C) and the NPF.

Key features

  • Delivered by specialist lecturers, practitioners and tutors with extensive experience in prescribing in the acute and community sectors
  • Taught using a mix of face-to-face sessions, 1-to-1 tutorial support and online learning sessions, resources and virtual learning platforms. Enabling you to learn effectively at home or work as well as in University classrooms
  • Can be taken as a standalone course, as part Masters In Advanced Clinical Practice or the Advanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship (subject to approval)
  • Approved by the NMC and HCPC against the Standards for Prescribing

Where could it take you?

The Independent and Supplementary Prescribing courses opens up autonomous practice to the experienced clinician. The Advanced Practice role is at the heart of the modernisation agenda for the NHS to increase capacity, make effective use of the skilled clinicians working in the acute and community sectors and to improve patient outcomes.

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University information

University of Worcester

  • University League Table

    85th

  • Campus address

    University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 6AJ, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    46th out of 81 2

    15th out of 35

  • Entry standards

    / Max 209
    132 63%

    40th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    99.0 99%

    19th

    29
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.46 69%

    76th

    38
  • Entry standards

    / Max 166
    145 88%

    11th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    92.0 92%

    15th

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.04 61%

    34th

    13

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