Interpret and apply detailed knowledge of current legal and professional issues to the prescribing practice of both licensed and unlicensed medicinal products.
• Sound understanding of current legislation impacting on prescribing practice
• Legal basis for practice, liability and indemnity
• Legal implications of advice to self medicate including the use of alternative and complimentary therapies and over the counter medication
• The mixing of medicines and subsequent legal and professional implications and
requirements
• Safe keeping of prescription pads, action if lost, writing prescriptions and record keeping
• Awareness and reporting of fraud (Shipman enquiry fourth report)
• Drug licensing
• Yellow card reporting to the MHRA and reporting patient/safety concerns to the NHS Commissioning Board Special Health Authority
• Prescribing in the policy context
• Manufactures guidance relating to literature, licensing and off label prescribing
• Legal and ethical implications of prescribing unlicensed medicines
• Ethical basis of intervention
• Informed consent, with particular reference to client groups in learning disability, mental health, children, critically ill people and emergency situations
• The legal basis of supplementary prescribing
• Record keeping