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The Department of Health leads TV debate: "Nurse prescribing - achieving prescriber uptake"

  • Last modified date:
    8 February 2007
Paul Robinson, policy lead for nurse prescribing and non-medical prescribing at the Department of Health, provides advice and guidance on plans to improve patient care by extending nurse prescribing, increasing the number of prescribing nurses and potentially expanding the current Nurse Prescribers' Extended Formulary.

Also contributing their advice and experience with Paul Robinson are fellow experts:

  • Dr James Kennedy - Chair of Prescribing Committee at The Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Barbara Stuttle CBE - Chair of The Association of Nurse Prescribing
  • Dr Molly Courtenay - Royal College of Nurses  and University of Reading
  • Balbir Sandhu - Head of Chronic Disease Medicine,Maidstone Weald PCT, and
  • Anne Baird - Nurse Practitioner, Portbrook Medical Centre.

This HealthExecTV programme examines the considerable opportunities for nurses to take a greater role in improving patient care and patient services through nurse prescribing, across both the primary and secondary care sectors.

It examines the opportunities of prescribing nurses to improve the level of patient care and services; from faster access to medication to reducing patient waiting times and administrative backlog.  It considers the management and risk aspects for GPs and health bodies in introducing nurse prescribing and most importantly the career opportunities for nurses.

A panel discussion focuses on asthma and the vital role that can be played by nurses in tackling one of the UK's major public health problems. It considers the additional resources and responsibilities nurses can provide, and latest advice and guidance on clinical and non-clinical approaches to treatment.

These discussions are designed for all those involved in patient care and service management, in both primary and secondary care; for nurses, GPs, doctors and health service managers.

This programme is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

The programme is available to view now at:

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