The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £461,000 for the Adult Social Care (ASC) Nurse Prescribing Pilot, to fund nurses to undertake a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NCM) approved prescribing qualification.
This will qualify them to prescribe medicines within their adult social care setting and provides nurses with credits towards the advanced practice Masters. Integrated Care Boards are taking part in this pilot.
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Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes.
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Cheshire and Merseyside in collaboration with Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria.
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Coventry and Warwickshire.
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Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Nottingham and Nottinghamshire in collaboration with Derby and Derbyshire.
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South Yorkshire.
Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy OBE, said: “The calibre of applications was outstanding, and I am very much looking forward to working closely with the six ICB Chief Nurses to help make this pilot a success.”
