Non-medical prescribing was introduced originally to reduce doctors' workloads and to improve patient care (Paterson et al, 2016). This delegates responsibility for full episodes of care to skilled...
‘… responsible and accountable for the assessment of patients with undiagnosed and diagnosed conditions and for decisions about the clinical management required, including prescribing.’.
As Lead Nurse of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Neuroendocrine Tumour Unit (a European Neuroendocrine Tumour Society (ENETS) centre of excellence), the author wanted to help improve the...
Nurse prescribing is an area of professional development that has been a priority for specialist practitioners since it was introduced in the Crown report (Department of Health (DH), 1999). Nurse...
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