Guidelines : Multi-professional Prescribing (also referred to as Non-medical Prescribing)

The Medicines Optimisation Board approved the updated primary care guidance for multi-professional prescribers.

Note: Multi-professional prescribing (MPP) was formerly referred to as “non-medical prescribing” and known as independent prescribing; however, this newer term reflects a wider number of healthcare professionals who can prescribe within their scope of practice once they have completed an approved education programme and is more accurate and inclusive. This term is increasingly being adopted by professional bodies including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) who author the prescribing competency framework.

Several companies are now offering prescribing services to practices that will provide a non-medical prescribing (NMP) pharmacist to cover some of the practice prescribing needs remotely. This is different to arrangements for employing pharmacists directly to work within the PCN or practice through ARRS funding to meet the requirements of the PCN DES. Before entering any such arrangement practices should be aware of appropriate governance arrangements and processes to follow.

The document below ("Outsourcing repeat prescribing services") provides advice for any practice considering thes services.

Advice relating to the use of prescribing cost centres and codes can be found here: https://surreyccg.res-systems.net/PAD/Guidelines/Detail/4979