We receive a substantial number of Practice Nurse (PN) prescriptions for prescribers who have not been registered with NHS Prescription Services at the practice specified on the prescriptions they're issuing. This has resulted in a high volume of unidentified nurse prescribing, which impacts on prescribing budgets and any clinical governance arrangements that rely on prescribing information provided by us. To register NMPs at your practice, the Sub Integrated Care Board Locations (SICBL) authorised signatory needs to be notified, who will then submit an NMP registration form to us. Any registrations received will be added to our database within three working days.
From March 2016 prescriptions, if we're unable to identify the nurse from the prescriber details provided due to the nurse not being registered we attribute the prescribing to the practice's senior partner/lead prescriber. NHS Prescription Services are also currently looking into including Additional/Supplementary prescribers in this new process.