USEFUL WEBSITES / RESOURCES
Drug Information http://www.druginfozone.nhs.uk/
European Council for Classical Homeopathy - www.homeopathy-ecch.org
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency website contains information about the legal framework governing the prescribing, supply and administration of medicines www.mhra.gov.uk
Medicines Partnership Programme www.medicines-partnership.org
National Prescribing Centre www.npc.co.uk produce useful information including,
competency frameworks, guides to practice and resources to help health care
professionals understand prescribing matters. They also provide study days and
conferences to update practitioners
Patient group directions www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/pgds
PRODIGY is an electronic system which provides prescribing advice for GPs. It
produces patient information leaflets and lists drugs recommended by
PRODIGY and links them to the condition and situation in which they are
recommended www.prodigy.nhs.uk.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - www.rpsgb.org contains information about prescribing and dispensing.
Standards of proficiency for nurse and midwifery prescribers are available on: www.nmc-uk.org These give national standards on education and practice.
Training for Nurse Independent Prescribers. The NMC requirements for training nurse independent and nurse supplementary prescribers are available on:
www.nmc-uk.org