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Advanced Clinical Practice 2 is the second of two units about contemporary pharmacy practice, including those relevant to the increasing scope of practice of pharmacists. The two units have been designed to provide pharmacy students with advanced skills on entry to the workforce, and registered pharmacists an opportunity to upskill. Advanced Clinical Practice 2 focuses on areas relevant to potential future pharmacy practice, specifically stewardship programs and independent prescribing.  

Although pharmacists are not currently able to prescribe independently, this course will provide you with the skills required if needed and will build on the current “prescribing” of pharmacy and Pharmacist Only medicines. The competencies developed in this course are based on the NPS MedicineWise Prescribing Competencies Framework and the General Pharmaceutical Council, UK (GPhC) education and training standards. As well as preparing you for future clinical roles, this course equips you with skills and knowledge required towards attainment of advanced level practitioner status under the advanced practice framework.  

NB: whilst this course will provide you with the foundational skills and knowledge of independent prescribing, it is anticipated that there will be further training and experiential learning requirements to be completed if independent prescribing is added to pharmacist’s scope of practice.