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This conference will update delegates on the recently Revised Competency framework for all prescribers launched on 7th September 2021 with an aim to be fully implemented by September 2022. The scope of the framework has been expanded, 12 new supporting statements have been included and new information sections added.
“A common set of competencies should underpin prescribing, regardless of professional background, to enable all prescribers to practise safely and effectively. It applies equally to independent prescribers, community practitioner nurse prescribers and supplementary prescribers.”
Chaired by Professor Angela Alexander MBE, Professor Emerita, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading & Chair, Working Party, The Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPP), Royal Pharmaceutical Society, this conference focuses on demonstrating and improving prescribing competence and practice and use of the National Competency Framework for all Prescribers, and will also update delegates on the Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners. Through national updates, practical case studies and extended expert sessions, this conference focuses on demonstrating and improving prescribing competence and practice – embedding the competency framework, and the twelve competencies for all prescribers.
“From early 2019 regulatory changes will enable experienced independent prescribers to work as designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs) for the practice element of non-medical prescribing training. This is a role traditionally held only by medical prescribers (Designated Medical Practitioners). We welcome the move to use independent prescribers in this role. It is an opportunity to draw on the expertise of different prescribing professions in the development of future non-medical prescribers and improves access to prescribing opportunities for the wider workforce. Multidisciplinary training remains central, drawing on the expert skills of each profession to develop informed, proficient prescribers able to deliver high quality patient care. We are leading on the development of a competency framework for those taking on this role.”
This conference will enable you to;
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve prescribing competence and practice
- Understand the national context of your prescribing practice
- Develop your skills and leadership as a prescriber
- Examine how to self assess, reflect and audit prescribing practice against the twelve competency dimensions
- Embed the framework into practice and demonstrate competence
- Demonstrating prescribing proficiency
- Understand clinical pharmacology to improve prescribing competence
- Reflect on the lived experience of a drug error and how we can learn from errors using a human factors approach
- Understand limits of competence
- Reflect on the new Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
