Applying to Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing
To apply for the Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing, you will need to submit your application and supporting documents online.
All applicants are required to complete the online application. In addition, you will need to complete a supplementary application form, which needs to be uploaded as supporting documentation within the online application portal. You will also need to complete the admissions checklist.
- Pharmacists Supplementary Application Form (GPhC) (Word, 99KB)
- Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Paramedics and Therapeutic Radiographers Supplementary Application Form (HCPC) (Word, 84KB)
- Admissions checklist (Word, 26KB)
Your application will not be reviewed until all the required supporting documentation has been uploaded into the online application portal as per the admissions checklist.
We are proud to announce that the University of Birmingham is listed as an institution providing course provision for NHS England funded pharmacist applicants. If you are applying for group 2 (PCPEP) funding, please ensure that you upload your IP approval certificate as supporting documentation within your online application form.
If your Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) is employed by a different organisation and your learning in practice hours are undertaken at an organisation where you are not an employee, you will be required to hold an honorary contract/written agreement with your DPP’s organisation. It is the responsibility of your DPP to arrange this with their organisation’s Human Resources or relevant department. Please note that all healthcare organisations should have their own policies.
An honorary contract/written agreement is a formal, unpaid agreement that allows individuals such as researchers, students, and trainee prescribers to undertake clinical activities within healthcare organisations while being linked to another organisation (e.g. a university or professional body). This ensures appropriate clinical governance, indemnity, and adherence to safe and effective healthcare policies, including safeguarding and confidentiality, without the individual being employed in a paid role. This arrangement is in place to protect both you and patients and to ensure that unauthorised individuals do not have access to patients or patient records.
In addition, healthcare organisations require individuals who work directly with patients to have an appropriate criminal records check and occupational health clearance. This is required due to the patient-facing nature of the independent prescribing course, which includes supervised consultations.
The honorary contract/written agreement must be in place before you commence the independent prescribing course, please upload evidence of this within the application portal with your supplementary form.
We have put together some helpful information on the taught programme application process and supporting documents on our how to apply page. Please read this information carefully before completing your application.
If you would like to continuing reviewing the programme information you can return to the Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing webpage.