Chair's Welcome and Introduction: Non Medical Prescribing - National Update
Dr Barry Quinn
Senior Lecturer for Cancer and Palliative Care
Queen’s University Belfast
Prescribing: National Update
• national developments in non-medical prescribing
• NMP at the end of life & Covid-19
• developing confidence and competence in your ability to prescribe
• demonstrating compliance with the NMC Code for revalidation
• the benefits of non-medical prescribing in end of life care
EXTENDED SESSION: Non-medical prescribing in end of life care. Non-medical prescribing in end of life care in the community
Rachel Hadfield
Team Leader and Senior Specialist Nurse
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• anticipatory prescribing in end of life care in the community
• an overview of non-medical prescribing within a large community palliative care team
• prescribing for delirium at the end of life
EXTENDED SESSION: Ensuring competence and confidence in and across prescribing practice
Ali Richards
Senior Lecturer
University of Cumbria
Clinical Fellow (Independent Prescribing Review)
Health Education England
• leading on prescribing practise
• keeping up to date with legislation and regulation
• competency
• communication with patients and the MDT