The Clinically Enhanced Prescribing PgCert has been designed to enhance your practice as a clinician and delivery of care to your patients and is suitable for all clinical specialties.

Taught predominantly online and in the in-practice learning environment, this accredited qualification enables you to evaluate and challenge prescribing practice with reference to evidence-based practice, equality and diversity and clinical governance, and develop clinically enhanced skills relevant to your specialist area.

The aims of the programme are to enable you to:

• Develop the knowledge, skills and clinical confidence to prepare students to become safe independent prescribers, working effectively within a health care team.
• Develop clinical enhanced skills relevant to specialist area i.e. acute or emergency medicine, mental health, paediatrics.

When achieved, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate person-centred care.
• Exhibit professionalism as a prescriber.
• Exemplify professional knowledge and skills commensurate with being an independent prescriber.
• Demonstrate clinical and professional collaboration with patients and other healthcare workers.
• Understand, apply and assess clinical skills and knowledge appropriate for a prescriber working within a clinical specialty to support the clinical management of patients.
• Utilise clinical and professional collaboration with patients and other healthcare workers.