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In July 2024 the NHSBSA reported a significant increase in the prescribing and dispensing of mental health medications in England.
This conference will look at national developments in Nurse prescribing in mental health, improving and maintaining prescribing competence and the use of the national prescribing competency framework in mental health. Extended sessions will focus on developing your skills as an effective Nurse prescriber and case studies will demonstrate established practice in Nurse prescribing on acute inpatient wards, for dual diagnosis, early intervention in psychosis, forensic mental health, learning disabilities and physical health monitoring. The conference will also look at developing Nurse prescribing including auditing your prescribing practice, deprescribing, involving people in prescribing decisions, prescribing decision making and supporting the expansion of non medical prescribing practice in mental health.
“The number of nurse prescribers has increased over the last few years. Nurse prescribers are increasingly prescribing in a form (‘independent prescribing’) that makes them independently responsible for prescribing decisions without working to a plan laid out by a doctor. Mental health organisations are increasingly planning in a systematic way how to identify, train and ensure good practice in nurse prescribing”
National survey of nurse prescribing in mental health services; a follow-up 6 years on D. Dobel-Ober PhD N. Brimblecombe RN
“Between July and September 2024: • There were 23 million antidepressant items prescribed to 6.9 million identified patients. • There were 1.2 million drugs for dementia prescribed to 268,000 identified patients • There were 3.4 million hypnotics and anxiolytics items prescribed to one million identified patients • For drugs used in psychoses and related disorders, 3.5 million items were prescribed to 657,000 identified patients. • There were 806,000 central nervous system (CNS) stimulants and drugs for ADHD items prescribed to an estimated 234,000 identified patients”
NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) December 2024
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to develop their skills in non medical prescribing practice in a mental health setting
Reflect on the lived experience
Learn from outstanding practice in improve care through non medical prescribing
Reflect on national developments and learning, and how prescribing practice has changed during the pandemic
Understand where Nurse prescribing is working well in mental health
Develop confidence and competence in your ability to prescribe
Improve the way you use the National Prescribing Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
Ensure the support is in place to prescribe effectively
Reflect on prescribing decision making including difficult issues: pharmacology & prescribing decision making, understanding co-morbidity issues and drug interactions, and issues around sedation
Understand how you can support, audit and expand non medical prescribing practice
Learn from experienced practitioners in developing Nurse prescribing on the acute inpatient ward and learn from case studies in dual diagnosis, psychosis, older people with frailty, Dementia, physical health monitoring and forensic mental health
Identify key strategies for reducing polypharmacy and deprescribing
Ensure you are up to date with the latest evidence
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
