Nurse Prescribing

If you would like your conference or event listed here, please contact us on admin@anp.org.uk with the date, title, venue, contact details (ideally a webpage or email address), and a brief description. Edited details of events will then be listed on the Diary dates page.

Dates throughout the year:

  • Free exhibitions and workshops from Journal of Community Nursing: see here for dates and venues.

  • Free conferences and exhibitions from Nursing in Practice, see here for various dates and venues .

May 2012

  • 2 May 2012, London. Non-medical prescribing competency-based CPD session covering: pharmacology revision - pharmacodynamics; and concordance. See 27 June 2012 for further details of these Middlesex University CPD sessions. Contact: Middlesex University website; or Claudette Heron (booking enquiries): email c.heron@mdx.ac.uk; or Jennie Bradford (course enquiries): email: j.bradford@mdx.ac.uk
  • 14 May 2012, Setting up and Running Nurse Clinics, London. Includes case studies of nurse-led clinics, interactive sessions, and includes presentations on audit, legal issues and risk, prescribing, and practicalities and legalities.Contact: Healthcare Conferences UK ; tel: 01932 429933; or email: info@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
  • 23-24 May 2012, Primary Care 2012, Birmingham. Annual event, now in its 22nd year, and free to practising healthcare professionals. The programme will be announced in March.Contact: Primary Care 2012.

June 2012

  • 15 June 2012, Nurse Prescribing, London. Endorsed by the ANP, this one-day event is for nurse and pharmacist prescribers in primary and secondary care, or for those thinking of becoming prescribers. It includes updates on standards and the new competency framework, case studies of non-medical prescribing in practice, and mixing medicines and safe and effective prescribing of unlicensed, off-label and controlled drugs.Contact: Healthcare Conferences. A 15% discount is available to ANP members: please log in to the members’ forum to obtain the discount code.
  • 27 June 2012, London. Non-medical prescribing competency-based CPD session covering: NMC standards and strategies for maintaining CPD; principles of safe prescribing and reducing drug errors; and pharmacology revision ADME. One of a series of CPD sessions from Middlesex University that can be flexibly combined, or adapted and delivered in-house. The sessions are aimed at qualified independent, supplementary and community practitioner non-medical prescribers to help them maintain prescribing competencies, in line with the requirements of their professional bodies. Contact: Middlesex University website; or Claudette Heron (booking enquiries): email c.heron@mdx.ac.uk; or Jennie Bradford (course enquiries): email: j.bradford@mdx.ac.uk

September 2012

November 2012

  • 22 November 2012, ANP conference, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre . Save the date and see below for full details. Contact: admin@anp.org.uk

Providing solidarity, education and support for effective Prescribing