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Module Summary

Dr Janet Page answers Dr Bill Beeby’s questions on the new GMC prescribing guidance.

Learning Objectives

This module will cover a few selected areas of the new GMC prescribing guidance, including:

  • Using electronic systems to keep up-to-date with prescribing
  • Prescribing for patients you have referred to secondary care
  • Requirements for shared prescribing
  • Prescribing unlicensed medications
Author

Dr Janet Page is a medico legal advisor for the MDU. Dr Bill Beeby is chairman of the GPC prescribing subcommittee and a GP in Middlesborough. 

Date module published

May 01, 2017

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