DH updates non-medical prescribing leads list
June 21, 2009 by admin
The Department of Health (DH) has published an updated list of non-medical prescribing leads in Strategic Health Authorities, which can be found here.
Nurses and swine flu: prescribing, NMC statement, and DH tools
June 21, 2009 by admin
Up-to-date information on prescribing Tamiflu and Relenza for nurse prescribers can be found here.
The NMC has made clear that all nurses and midwives must practice within their competency levels and should seek advice or supervision from a “competent practitioner” if faced with an aspect of practice outside their competency or registration area: they remain answerable at all times for their actions and omissions. The full NMC position statement on the role of registered nurses and midwives during an influenza pandemic can be found here - it also states that nurses and midwives will not be professionally compromised “provided they are competent (and have been assessed as such) to carry out duties being requested by the employer”.
The Department of Health has issued a swine flu clinical package containing a set of tools that can be used by frontline healthcare professionals in a pandemic.
DH makes connections
May 1, 2009 by admin
The Department of Health (DH) has published an information note giving examples of how non-medical prescribers - both nurse/pharmacist independent prescribers and supplementary prescribers - can work in parallel with doctors to ‘increase access, capacity and choice’ for patients (see ‘Making the connections - using healthcare professionals as prescribers to deliver organizational improvements’).
Twelve case studies were commissioned and illustrate how patients are benefiting in a range of settings from these new services.
A few examples from the document:
- Nurse and pharmacist prescribers in A and E departments increase speed of treatment for minor illness or injury and allow doctors to concentrate on more complex cases.
- Family planning services using nurse prescribers to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.
- Nurse and pharmacist prescribers in nursing homes and mental health services optimise prescribing and reduce drug wastage.
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