PGCert Clinically Enhanced Non-Medical Prescribing at Wrexham University

Programme overview

This postgraduate certificate combines the Independent/Supplementary Prescribing qualification with advanced clinical skills training, integrating physical examination, clinical reasoning and decision-making alongside prescribing. Two modules run concurrently, taught through taught sessions, campus-based simulation, supervised practice and self-directed study.

Department: Health | Duration: 1 year part-time | Intake: September 2027 | Study mode: part-time | Location: Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Clinical Assessment, Diagnostics and Reasoning Part 1 (physical examination of cardiac, respiratory, neurological and abdominal systems, history taking, differential diagnosis, interpretation of bloods, chest x-rays and ECGs) alongside Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses, Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists or Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for Allied Health Professionals (legal and ethical frameworks, safe prescribing, adverse reactions, pharmacovigilance).

Career pathways

Successful completion gives the Independent/Supplementary Prescribing qualification and enhanced clinical assessment skills for practice as a non-medical prescriber.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A degree at 2:2 or above for level 7 study, or evidence of completion of a level 7 module if the applicant has no degree. Written employer or sponsor endorsement of an area of clinical practice requiring prescribing skills and up-to-date clinical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical knowledge. Applicants must be a registered nurse (registered with the NMC for at least one year for nurse/midwife/SCPHN applicants), midwife, SCPHN, allied health professional, or a pharmacist registered with the GPhC or PSNI and in good standing. A designated prescribing practitioner must agree to supervise (78 hours for nurses; minimum 90 hours for pharmacists and HCPC-registered AHPs). Satisfactory DBS disclosure, programme and generic application forms, a placement educational audit form and a shortlist interview are required.

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year part-time

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