Attitudes of successful candidates of supplementary prescribing courses to their training and their extended roles

摘要

The enactment of Section 63 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 gave pharmacists the opportunity of becoming supplementary prescribers - that is pharmacists who,in a voluntary partnership with a clinician(the independent prescriber)and the patient,could implement an agreed,patient-specific clinical management plan (CMP)under which they could prescribe medicines.This expansion in the traditional pharmacy role was prompted by three things:An acute shortage of GPs leading to work overload,particularly in the area of repeat prescribing for chronic conditions,where supplementary prescribing could provide patients with quicker and more efficient access to medicines.