PG Dip in Clinical Pharmacy specialisation in Prescribing

The aim of the pharmacist Prescribing qualification is to build on the clinical capabilities gained in the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, and equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills and attributes to competently prescribe medicines within a collaborative healthcare team environment.

The areas of study include:

- Consultation, patient assessment and decision-making skills

- Influences on prescribing

- Medicines adherence

- Safe and effective prescribing

- Prescribing in a collaborative healthcare team context

- Legal and ethical aspects of prescribing

- Clinical governance

- Prescribing in the public health context

- Prescribing in the context of the New Zealand Healthcare System

Pharmacist prescribers are experienced pharmacists who work in patient-focused roles in collaborative healthcare teams to optimise medicines use.
- In primary care, Pharmacist Prescribers assess patients and then prescribe medicines. Areas of prescribing practice include renal, diabetes, hypertension, gout and management of cardiovascular risk.
- In hospitals, pharmacists are working as members of the clinical team who can now prescribe. Areas of prescribing practice include renal, emergency admission, surgical preadmission, parenteral nutrition, paediatrics and mental health.

The role pharmacists can play in patient care is rapidly expanding and New Zealand is at the forefront of this. Legislation has now been passed that allows pharmacists to prescribe, and the numbers of New Zealand pharmacists registered to prescribe is steadily growing.
This innovation is in line with the Government’s commitment to support health practitioners to work to their full capacity and provide better, timely, more convenient access to services for patients.

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