Scottish Government

SUPPLEMENTARY PRESCRIBING: PHARMACIST PRACTITIONERS
A Guide for Implementation within NHSScotland

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Contents

How to use the guide
Introduction
Background
General
What is supplementary prescribing?
Legal basis of supplementary prescribing
Aims of supplementary prescribing
How supplementary prescribing will work
General principles
Characteristics of supplementary prescribing
Responsibilities
Working together
The process
Conditions and health needs that can be included
Patient consent
Which pharmacists can be supplementary prescribers?
Training and preparation for supplementary prescribing
Preparation for supplementary prescribing
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Evaluation audit and clinical governance of supplementary prescribing
The Clinical Management Plan (CMP)
Medicines prescribable under supplementary prescribing arrangements
The Patient Review
Good practice, ethics and issues common to all supplementary prescribers
Stock items
Informing patients
Prescribing for self, family and friends
Patient Records
Adverse Reaction Reporting
Role of the National Patient Safety Agency
Legal and Clinical Liability
Dispensing of prescribed items
Prescribing Information
Annex A: Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain: Outline curriculum for training programmes to prepare pharmacist supplementary prescribers
Annex B: CMP template for teams with full coterminus access to patient records
Annex C: CMP template for teams where the supplementary prescriber does not have coterminus access to the medical record
Annex D: Part 1 - Registration with Healthcare Information Group
Annex D: Part 2 - Prescription Stationery
Appendix 1: Form ISD(P)2
Appendix 2: Form PSD3
Appendix 3: Form PSD4
Appendix 4: Form GP10P(3)( Complete)
Appendix 5: Form GP10P(3)( Prescriber to complete)
Appendix 6: Form HBPP(3)
Annex E: How to complete the prescription form