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Making connections: using healthcare professionals to deliver organisational improvements

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    1 May 2008
  • Gateway reference:
    none needed
  • Pages:
    12
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

Nurse and pharmacist prescribing is a valuable tool to deliver patient care in a variety of settings. Many nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers manage their own caseloads including in dedicated clinics - helping patients to manage long-term conditions' or by treating one-off episodes of care in GP Practices or in Walk-in Centres and in Accident and Emergency Departments.

To help the NHS understand how Non-Medical Prescribing can help to deliver services, the Department of Health commissioned Primary Care Contracting to produce 6 Nurse Prescribing and 6 Pharmacist Prescribing case studies.

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Hard copy versions of the case studies are available from Prolog by quoting

287018/NP for nurse prescribing studies, and

287018/PP for pharmacist prescribing case studies

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