PrescQIPP benefits

 

Do you know what FREE resources you can access from PrescQIPP to help your NHS team improve medicines-related care to patients?

 

Who we are

PrescQIPP is a Community Interest Company funded by the NHS for the NHS.

We produce evidence based resources and implementation tools for medicines related interventions, with a “do once and share” ethos to reduce unnecessary duplication and variation in the NHS.

 

What we do

PrescQIPP provide a host of resources and data to help you optimise medicines, improve medicines safety and patient outcomes.  

In addition, PrescQIPP create and deliver training to help upskill healthcare professionals to tackle medicines optimisation issues more confidently. Visit our learning page to find out more.

 

Who are our subscribers, who can use our resources

We have a UK wide subscriber base that includes all the English Integrated Care Boards (ICBs); Health boards (HBs) in Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Jersey. We also have some Scottish HBs as subscribers.

 

The PrescQIPP membership benefits are freely available to ICB/HB Chief pharmacists and their teams, finance teams, pharmacists in acute and community trusts, GP practices, PCNs and clusters, care homes pharmacy professionals and community pharmacists.

 

Register for access to PrescQIPP resources using your NHS email address.

 

Resources available include – 

 

• Bulletins and webkits on a huge variety of clinical topics, such as pain, respiratory, anticoagulation, antimicrobial stewardship, polypharmacy and many more.
• Masterclasses are monthly clinical webinars, across a variety of key therapeutic areas and delivered by national experts in their field.
• Clinical and skills webinars covering topical issues such as, using the IMPACT resources, data and analysis tools, and mentoring.
• Practice Plus is a monthly webinar to connect and upskill PCN and practice pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• Prescribing Mastery webinars utilise action learning opportunities to share, learn and optimise prescribing practice on range of a clinical areas.
• Series of social prescribing webinars run by the National Academy for Social Prescribing highlight the evidence, need and impact of social prescribing across the life-course.
• Series of carbon awareness and sustainability in healthcare webinars delivered by Lighthouse Sustainability covering topics such as impacts of climate change, carbon footprinting and circular economy and waste with examples relevant to healthcare and medicines optimisation.
• Leadership at Lunch is a popular series of one hour bite sized sessions on the fundamentals of leadership.
• Virtual Professional Groups that meet quarterly to upskill, network and share good practice, including:

• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Care homes
• Continence and stoma
• Data users
• High cost drugs and biosimilars
• Medication safety
• Nutrition
• Pharmacy technicians
• Polypharmacy and deprescribing

 

Find out more 

If you’re new to PrescQIPP, use our virtual induction webpage for information, tips and advice to get the most out of the PrescQIPP website and our community.

 

Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter direct to your inbox to keep up to date with our latest publications and details about upcoming webinars, workshops and podcasts.

 

Follow us on Bluesky (@prescqipp.info), LinkedIn (PrescQIPP CIC) or X (@PrescQIPP) for regular updates on our publications and resources.