PGCert Advanced Health Assessment and Prescribing

Develop your knowledge of advanced health assessment, diagnosis, and independent and supplementary prescribing. This Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) is designed for UK registered nurses, midwives or allied health practitioners (including pharmacists), to train as non-medical prescribers. If you're working towards a specialist or advanced role within clinical practice, this PGCert will advance your clinical skills.
You’ll learn how to:
make clinical judgements that consider research evidence, expert opinion, the legalethical dimensions of practice and the views of the people in your care
demonstrate a high level of autonomy in managing risk, complexity and uncertainty in your role as a non-medical prescriber
undertake discrete episodes of care delivery for people with differentiated and undifferentiated conditions
demonstrate the application of assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, problem-solving and decision-making skills within your role as a non-medical prescriber
This pathway will enable you to practice with a higher level of clinical autonomy in roles that require you to assess, diagnose and treat people.
To access this award, you must work in a suitable clinical environment and have access to appropriate medical, and experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner mentorship.
Nurses and midwives are required to have an experienced prescriber from the practitioner’s own profession (or pharmacist or medical practitioner) to act as practice supervisor, as well as a middle or senior grade doctor to act as the practice assessor. Allied Health Professions (AHPs) are required to have a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) who will be a medical practitioner.