Prescribing Studies. Keele University

In the fast-changing world of therapeutics, prescribing and health care provision, prescribers, or those providing prescribing advice, may feel under-equipped to meet Department of Health demands and the challenges that have emerged from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), National Service Frameworks (NSFs), Clinical Governance frameworks, and the Crown Report. The final Crown Report proposed a new framework for the prescribing, supply and administration of medicines in which new groups of professionals such as nurses and pharmacists, will be able to prescribe medicines. The Government’s programme for Pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: Building on strengths – delivering the future along with the new Pharmacy Contract, have paved the way for pharmacists to broaden their role and contribution within primary health care.