Kent and Medway ICS Designated Prescribing Practitioner Education and Supervision Project

Development of prescribers to increase workforce in specialist areas.

Increasing equity and access for people in KM to support the NHS National Long Term Plan e.g., taking polypharmacy, de-prescribe and STOMP/STAMP.

Access to clinicians able to undertake structured medication reviews at their first point of contact thereby empowering people to manage their health.

Increased multi-professional team working, maximising efficient use of resources.

Developing clinicians to work appropriately, holistically and safely, improving quality and sustainability of care.

Increased job satisfaction as people are developed and equipped to fulfil their role.

Build clinical leadership in pharmacy and multi-professional practice through a DPP Education and Supervision Framework.

Raise awareness and profile of this group of staff as pharmacy/multi-professional clinical practitioners and the advanced roles they can undertake.

Champion and normalise the role of DPP for all those able to prescribe.

Build a continuous supply of appropriately developed DPPs that provide support, supervision and learning opportunities across the system.

Use a place-based learning approach.

Have multi-professional understanding and awareness.

Understand the different contexts in which people prescribe.

Develop reciprocal place-based learning approaches to ensure a supply of DPPs to all organisations regardless of their own DPP numbers, therefore sharing resources and translating learning and knowledge across a place.

Match the right DPP with the right learner.

Relieving system/organisational pressures for training and support succession planning for imminently retiring workforce.

Support integration and interface working and continuous place-based learning (developing and improving across the place and translation of knowledge across the system).

Improve workforce retention and recruitment supporting a more sustainable future for the KM ICS.

Potential to develop systems oversight, governance, support, and pool resources across the system.

Ability to match individuals with the most appropriate DPP with the right knowledge and experience.

Developing a framework of what a Kent and Medway DPP might look like with agreed minimum expectations.

A hub and spoke approach to learning and development.

Creating reciprocal arrangements for learning developing and improving across a place.