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The annual cost to be a member of the Association is £30.00
Email the admin team at admin@associationforprescribers.org.uk or telephone 01245 327763
Information about future conferences will be on the Diary Dates page. You will need to complete a booking form to attend.
Students in their first year of study can join the AFP for £15.00.
For SPs
There are no legal restrictions on the clinical conditions that may be dealt with by independent prescribers.
If acting as an SP
There are no legal restrictions on the clinical conditions that may be dealt with by a SP. Supplementary prescribing is mainly intended to manage chronic medical conditions but acute episodes occurring within chronic conditions may be included in management provided they are included in the CMP
Unlicensed medicines
Nurse independent prescribers (but not community practitioner nurses), pharmacists, physiotherapists and optometrists may all prescribe unlicensed medicines subject to accepted clinical good practice for medical conditions within their competence. Optometrists are restricted to prescribing for ocular conditions affecting the eye and surrounding tissue only.
Off-label medicines
Nurse independent prescribers (but not community practitioner nurses), pharmacists, physiotherapists and optometrists may all prescribe unlicensed medicines subject to accepted clinical good practice for medical conditions within their competence. Optometrists are restricted to prescribing for ocular conditions affecting the eye and surrounding tissue only.
Controlled drugs
Nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers may prescribe controlled drugs (Schedule 2-5) on a prescription (but not cocaine, dipipanone or diamorphine for treating addiction) for any medical condition within their competence.Currently (August 2014) podiatrist and physiotherapist independent prescribers cannot prescribe or authorise an emergency supply for any controlled drugs. The legislation to enable prescribing of controlled drugs by these professions has been set in the Human Medicines Regulations but it has NOT yet been set in the Misuse of Drug Regulations 2001, as amended. When legislation has been passed physiotherapists will be limited to only those controlled drugs which contain dihydrocodeine, fentanyl, morphine, oxycodone or temazepam. Podiatrists may only prescribe dihydrocodeine or temazepam.
Optometrists and Community practitioner nurses are not allowed to prescribe any controlled drugs.
Supplementary prescribers may prescribe any controlled drug (Schedule 2-5) other than cocaine, dipipanone or diamorphine for treating addiction) subject to clinical competence and inclusion within a clinical management plan.
Yes. Must be clinically competent to do so.
Yes but only those medicines that they are authorised to prescribe as an IP (or as an SP within the CMP) and provided they are competent to do so. They may also issue directions for the parenteral administration of the same medicines.
It is generally considered poor practice to self-prescribe or to prescribe for persons for whom there is a close personal relationship. The regulatory body for Doctors (General Medical Council) advises that doctors must wherever possible avoid prescribing for themselves or anyone with whom they have a close relationship. The regulatory body for nurses (Nursing and Midwifery Council) advises that nurses and midwives must not prescribe for themselves and, other than in exceptional circumstances they should not prescribe for anyone with whom they have a close personal or emotional relationship. It may be acceptable to prescribe for this group in an emergency. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society have defined prescribing in an emergency to
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