Advanced Paramedic Practitioner College of Paramedics (UK) Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Description: In April 2018 paramedics in the United Kingdom (UK) became the first in the world to be legally allowed to train in and become independent prescribers. Allowing suitably experienced and qualified paramedics to prescribe a large range of medication in all areas of practice.
This presentation will look at the development of paramedic prescribing in the United Kingdom. The drivers, challenges, and legal framework for its introduction. As well as looking at how its introduction has benefitted patient care, and the developments still envisaged for the future.
The presenter was one of the first 190 paramedics annotated to prescribe independently in the UK and will discuss his experience of training and prescribing in practice.
Learning Objectives:
Describe how Independent prescribing can benefit patients in their area of practice.
understand the experience and education required before being able to safely practice as a non-medical prescriber.
describe the challenges that paramedics and the paramedic profession will experience when try to introduce non-medical prescribing.
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