Description: "Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives, Physicians Associates and Health Care Professionals who want to become an independent prescriber in the UK must successfully complete an NMC, GMC or HCPC approved post-registration prescribing programme in order to meet the standards of proficiency necessary for an annotation to be made against an entry on to their professional register. Independent prescribers are practitioners responsible and accountable for the assessment of patients with previously undiagnosed or diagnosed conditions and for decisions about the clinical management required, including prescribing. They are recommended to prescribe generically, except where this would not be clinically appropriate or where there is no approved non-proprietary name"--
