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New ways of prescribing
Recent policy developments have enabled the introduction of new ways to prescribe medication, for example non-medical prescribing and patient group directions. Non-medical supplementary prescribing was introduced in 2003 and has been defi ned by the DH as: ‘a voluntary prescribing partnership between an independent prescriber (doctor) and supplementary prescriber (nurse or pharmacist) to implement an […]
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