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Developing Your Role and Skills as a Designated Prescribing Practitioner
Implementing the Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
(Prescribing Supervisors and Assessors) to train and support Non-Medical Prescribers
The aim of the Designated Prescribing Practitioner role is
“to oversee, support and assess the competence of non-medical prescribing trainees, in collaboration with academic and workplace partners, during the period of learning in practice”
RPS
The conference will provide delegates with an update on implementing the RPS Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
“Non-medical prescribers (NMPs) have only recently been able to perform the role of DPP, previously having to direct colleagues to a doctor to perform this role. No one is better placed to support and supervise somebody from a non-medical profession to prescribe independently, than an independent prescriber. As an independent prescriber, you understand the requirements of the role and the responsibility that comes with it. Your supervision is essential to build the prescribing capacity of the current workforce, and therefore the DPP capacity of the future. Supervising any learner contributes to your own development, both personally and professionally, and can be incredibly rewarding at any stage of your career. It helps you keep your knowledge and skills up to date and keeps you close to the forefront of the most recent developments in healthcare. It also feels good knowing that you are making a real contribution to shaping the future of the workforce. Supervising those learning to prescribe helps to improve your own prescribing practice. It contributes to the leadership and education pillars of advanced practice, and it will help to transform NHS services at the point of delivery.”
Health Education England 2024
Through national updates, expert sessions and practical case studies the conference will support you to develop or expand your role as a Designated Prescribing Practitioner, and support the development of effective non medical prescribing across your service. The conference will also discuss how becoming a DPP can enhance your role, and the benefits of non medical assessors in expanding non medical prescribing in organisations.
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve training quality and safety of non medical prescribers
Learn from outstanding practice in delivering the role in practice
Reflect on national developments and learning including the RPS Competence Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
Discuss the current shortage of DPPs in light of the IETP reforms which come into place in 2025/6
Understand the required competencies to take on this role
Reflect on how becoming a DPP can enhance your own role as a non medical prescriber and support the expansion of non medical prescribing in your service
Develop your skills as a DPP
Understand how you can optimize the period of learning practice
Identify key strategies for coordinating support and ensuring effective governance of the DPP role
Understand how you can improve the learning environment
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
