This course will enable you to extend your scope of clinical practice to prescribe medicines as an Independent and Supplementary Non-medical Prescriber. Non-medical prescribing is becoming a well-established means of managing a service user’s condition enabling quicker access to medicines, delivering high quality, innovative clinical care and offering choice for service users. The course explores current practices as well as supporting professional and personal development. You will have advanced skills in assessment and diagnosis and have demonstrable expertise in an identified area of clinical practice, e.g. mental health, adult nursing, child nursing, learning disabilities and midwifery.

Inma Diaz Alonso
Course Director

Welcome

Learning and teaching strategies will involve you as an active participant on this course; you will be encouraged to use self-evaluation and reflection on your own experience to deepen and consolidate your understanding as well as plan for your future learning.

The programme structure consists of academic study and experiential learning providing you with a flexible learning environment. The programme uses a variety of interactive learning activities. You will take part in lectures, workshops, seminars and self or academic directed exercises. You will have access to the University Virtual Learning Environment which will provide essential documents, lecture notes access to useful web sites and a discussion forum. There will be the opportunity for work-based learning you will work with your practice supervisor and practice assessor to experience at first hand prescribing decisions and dilemmas. This approach encourages shared learning communities and working together with practice partners to support students through the learning experience. A blended learning approach to delivery of the programme allows for a combination of online digital media and traditional classroom-based activities to be used.

Your course team will be in touch with you via email to share further details regarding your Welcome and Induction to the course.

Getting started

We are proud to be an inclusive University that supports a diverse community of students. Please note that if you have a disability or would like to learn more about the support that we can offer to students, please visit the Disability and Mental Health website. This is available once you have accepted your offer.

We would encourage you to review the course structure and module options via your course page before you arrive.

Should fees be supported by your employer or another sponsor you will be asked to provide evidence and specific details via the university's registration portal 'MyRecord'. If you require support with this please contact health.business-operations@canterbury.ac.uk.

Please use the Canterbury or Medway tabs below to find start dates and information specific to your campus.

Start dates:

  • Term 1 Intake: 1 October
  • Term 2 Intake: 4 February

Your course team will be in touch with you via email before you join the university to share details of your welcome and induction. 

Pre-course reading

  • HCPC (2019) Standards of conduct performance and ethics https://www.hcpcuk.org/standards/standards-relevant-to-education-and-training/standards-for-prescribing/
  • NMC (2018) The Code Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/nmc-publications/nmc-code.pdf
  • NMC (2018) Part3: Standards for prescribing programmes. https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/education-standards/programme-standardsprescribing.pdf
  • Neal, M.J., 2020. Medical pharmacology at a glance. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Courtenay, M, & Griffiths, M. (2021) Independent and Supplementary Prescribing An Essential Guide. 3rd Edition Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bradley E, Nolan P. (2008) Non-Medical Prescribing Multidisciplinary perspectives Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Contact details

CourseSupport-health@canterbury.ac.uk