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Review of prescribing, supply and administration of medicines
— final report | | Author(s) | June Crown |
| Corporate Author | Review Team for the Prescribing, Supply and Administration of Medicines; Department of Health - DoH |
| Publisher | Department of Health - DoH, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 134 pp |
| Source | NHS Responseline: 0541 555 455. |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Medical workers ; Teaching hospitals ; Standards of provision ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | Pressures for change in the prescribing, supply and administration of medicine have arisen because of changes in professional education and training, patient expectations, professional relationships, and the range and complexity of medicines. This report sets out a proposed new framework for prescribing inside and outside the NHS, in which: most patients will continue to receive medicines on an individual patient-specific basis; and the current prescribing authority of doctors, dentists and certain nurses continues. The main change introduces a distinction between two new categories of prescribers: independent prescribers - professionals who are responsible for the initial assessment of the patient and for devising the broad treatment plan, with the authority to prescribe medicines required as part of that plan; and dependent prescribers - professionals who are authorised to prescribe certain medicines for patients whose condition has been diagnosed or assessed by an independent prescriber, within an agreed assessment and treatment plan. The likely impact of the proposed changes, and implications for legislation, professional training and standards are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990311201 B |
| Classmark | LLD: QT: V6: 583: 6OA |
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