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Prescriber frameworks

Once qualified, non-medical prescribers will be entitled to prescribe within one or both of the following frameworks:

Independent prescribing is prescribing by a practitioner, who is responsible and accountable for the assessment of service users with undiagnosed or diagnosed conditions and for decisions about the clinical management required. An independent prescriber is able to prescribe on their own initiative any medicine within their scope of practice and relevant legislation. 

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Supplementary prescribing is a voluntary partnership between a doctor or dentist and a supplementary prescriber to prescribe within an agreed service user-specific clinical management plan (CMP). Once qualified a supplementary prescriber may prescribe any medicine within their clinical competence, within the limits of the CMP.

Upon qualification as a non-medical prescriber they may only prescribe from the formulary they are qualified to prescribe from and within their competence and scope of practice.

Further information can be found here