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Allied health professionals play a vital role in healthcare. This specialised professional development course in independent and supplementary prescribing is designed to support your progress in clinical practice. It reflects the specific needs of allied health professionals and employers and aims to educate students in prescribing practices that meet local or national guidelines.
Award:
AdvDip(CPD)
Mode of Study:
Part-time
Duration:
26 weeks
Location:
University of Bolton
Start date:
10/01/2024 (Full)
Allied health professionals (AHPs) make up one of the largest and arguably most important groups of professionals in the UK. Increasingly in high demand, AHPs come from a range of medical and related backgrounds, bringing diverse skill sets to their roles.
Ideal for AHPs with at least three years of experience, this course will challenge you to apply planning, cooperation, critical analysis and decision-making skills to your work, taking account of local or national guidelines.
You'll explore a wide range of subjects, including clinical pharmacology, the psychology of prescribing and professional accountability, and have the opportunity to complete practice-based learning under the supervision of your mentor.
The programme is designed to meet the needs of AHPs and their employers. It aims to equip you with the communication skills, diagnostic abilities and legal and professional understanding necessary for safe, appropriate and cost-effective prescribing.
With a professional development qualification in non-medical independent and supplementary prescribing from the University of Bolton, you'll have the chance to build on your knowledge and experience, offer advanced patient care and become more competitive in the jobs market.
This course is known colloquially as V300, although this term is purely an NMC term.
This course is validated and approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
When you successfully complete the course, you'll be eligible to register your qualification as an Independent/Supplementary Prescriber with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.
Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £1,600 for the academic year 2023/24.
Overseas students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Overseas fee of £1,600 for the academic year 2023/24.
Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
For details of how to apply for this course, please choose your status from the options below:
You may apply directly to the University using the University's online application form. Please select your chosen start date from the list below:
You should have to hand:
Details of the educational establishments you attended and dates
Your certificates for the qualifications you are using to gain entry to the course – you will need to enter the completion date and upload copies
Details of any employment history including name, address, dates and role
Personal statement – this can be either input into the relevant field or uploaded separately
Details including e-mail addresses of two referees, at least one of which should be someone who can provide an academic reference
Please make sure any documents you wish to upload in support of your application are in pdf or jpeg format. Personal statements may be word documents.
Please ensure your data is correct at each stage of the application before you proceed to the next page. If you use the back button at any time during the application, you should check the validity of the data you have already input.
If you experience difficulties during the application process, contact the Admissions Team on 01204 903394 or admissions@bolton.ac.uk
Apply online: Central Manchester Foundation Trust Non-Medical Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Allied Health Care Professionals - 22 September 2023
Apply online: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Non-Medical Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Allied Health Care Professionals - 07 November 2023
Apply online: University of Bolton Non-Medical Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Allied Health Care Professionals-10 January 2024 (Course Full)
As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.
We offer a wide range of full-time courses in lots of different subjects, many of our courses start in September and January. If you would like to see what courses are available please visit our Course Search.
We take a blended approach offering a combination of face-to-face and online activities, including lectures, workshops, tutorials, role-play, discussions, and e-learning via the virtual learning environment. In classroom sessions, you'll focus mainly on studying the theory of independent and supplementary prescribing.
To cover the fundamentals of practice, we'll expect you to complete 12 days of hands-on experience to develop and demonstrate competence in prescribing within your area of clinical practice. During the course, you'll have access to staff support and meetings with your tutor at least twice each trimester. However, you'll be primarily responsible for managing your learning and must commit to considerable independent study time.
During assessments, you'll need to demonstrate that you can prescribe medicines safely and effectively for patients within the current legal, ethical and professional frameworks relating to prescribing practice. You'll also need to demonstrate that you're competent to prescribe within the context of your clinical placement. We'll expect you to create a portfolio and reflective learning log relevant to your prescribing practice in your own clinical setting. You'll also sit several written examinations, and your Designated Prescribing Practitioner will assess your communication, consultation and clinical decision-making skills in practice.
Level | Assesment method |
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Level one | Coursework 50%, Written exams 50% |
Level | Learning activity |
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Level one | Guided independent study 25%, Placement/study abroad 50%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 25% |
Disclaimer
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
The academic staff detailed above teach across a range of courses in this subject area and may not teach on this course specifically.
C.Merriman@bolton.ac.uk
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