• Patient involvement
• Shared Record
• Access and continuity of care
• Training in concordance

 "Medicines Partnership welcomes the proposals to extend supplementary prescribing rights to chiropodists, physiotherapists, radiographers and optometrists.  The increase in the range of healthcare professionals who are able to prescribe can only be helpful to patients, increasing choice. availability and accessibility.

 

As you will be aware, Medicines Partnership is a Department of Health funded programme which aims to enable patients to get the most from their medicines by involving them as partners in prescribing decisions and supporting them in medicine taking.  We would consider it critical to the successful implementation of these proposals that the courses of training for each profession include the key component of consultation skills for effective partnership working with patients and shared decision making.  Patients should always be involved in the delivery of  these modules. Furthermore, competence in these skills should be a pre-requisite for the successful competion of an approved course of training.  Medicines Partnership would be happy to contribute to the development of such training modules."