INF1 - B. NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIBING-COVERED

Question 1

what can dentists prescribe

Answer 1

any POM and most CDs
‘The dental practitioners’ formulary in BNF
NHS prescriptions on specific NHS dental prescription (FD10D - yellow)

Question 2

who can be a supplementary prescriber

Answer 2

pharmacist, midwife, nurse, podiatrist, physio etc

Question 3

what does a supplementary prescriber need to set up

Answer 3

clinical management plan - with IP and named patient and all classes of drugs

Question 4

what is an independent prescriber

Answer 4

a fully autonomous prescriber

Question 5

who can be an IP

Answer 5

pharmacists, nurses (additional course required)

Question 6

who can we dispense prescriptions to where there is a non-medical prescriber

Answer 6

• EEA and Swiss
• doesn’t include CD schedules 1-3 and medicines without a UK MA
• treat prescription as private prescription

Question 7

what are crown dependencies prescriptions

Answer 7

• Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man
• may be dispensed in UK
• treat prescription as private prescription

Question 8

what is a PGD

Answer 8

• a written direction
• allows the supply and/or administration of a specified medicine
• to a defined group of patients who require treatment for a specific condition (without a Rx!)
• don’t have to be an IP to supply

Question 9

what could a PGD be used for

Answer 9

vaccinations
EHC
community sexual health clinics (STI treatment)
pain relief for hospital discharge

Question 10

what is a patient specific direction

Answer 10

• another way of supplying or administering medicines without a prescription
• written instruction from a doctor, dentist or other prescriber for a medicine to be supplied or administered to a named patient after the prescriber has assessed that patient on an individual basis
  used on hospital inpatient drug charts and for TTOs