Prescribing support
One-to-one support – every weekday, 9am until 5pm
If you’re an RCPharm member with a prescribing query, we’re here to help.
For all queries not related to prescribing, please contact the professional support team.
Our prescribing support service is exclusively for RCPharm members.
Practical advice and guidance for RCPharm members on:
Starting prescribing: Find a prescribing course; apply for an IP course; funding; finding a DPP.
Expanding your practice scope: Considerations for when you may plan to expand your scope of prescribing practice into further clinical areas, additional medicines or in a new area of work.
Guidance on legal and ethical enquiries: Considerations for writing prescriptions; prescribing and dispensing medications; signing repeat prescriptions; non-prescribers authorising prescriptions.
Specific medicines or situations: Advice on unlicensed medicines; prescribing controlled drugs; using guidelines to support in prescribing; prescribing for patients travelling.
Ethical dilemmas/problems: Specific questions or problems, including: prescribing for family members; prescribing errors; workplace pressures.
Developing skills/knowledge as a prescriber: Finding a mentor for prescribing practice after qualification; revalidation advice for prescribers; expanding scope of practice; requirements for becoming a DPP.
Clinical queries: Medicines interactions for newly prescribed drugs or patients’ regular medicines; drug interactions with herbal products; using national clinical guidelines for appropriate prescribing.
Setting up a prescribing service: Professional considerations for setting up your own prescribing service.
Who will I be speaking to?
Our friendly and knowledgeable team are here to help all RCPharm members with questions and concerns.
Whether you call or email, you can be sure you’ll be talking to a human being with years of experience as a pharmacist.
Sabes
Sabes is the professional manager, who joined RCPharm in 2014 having worked in community pharmacy and academia.
Yogeeta
Yogeeta joined RCPharm in 2015, previously working in various sectors of pharmacy, including hospital, community, secure environments and GP practice. She is a prescriber and currently works part-time as a clinical pharmacy lecturer.
Alison
Alison joined RCPharm in 2022, having previously worked in secure environments and community pharmacy.
Suji
Suji joined RCPharm in 2022, having previously worked in secondary care.