Study General Pharmacy Practice (Prescribing) PG Cert at UCL (University College London) in the UK,
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General Pharmacy Practice (Prescribing) PG Cert

UK

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What will I learn?

This is an integrated Clinically Enhanced Pharmacist Independent Prescribing (CEPIP) course. ‘Clinically enhanced’ refers to the additional skills that you will acquire around medical history taking and physical examination as part of the course.

Study options

Online/Distance (1 Year)

Tuition fees
£14,500.00 (US$ 18,726) per year
This is a provisional fee yet to be approved

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

March 2027

Entry requirements

For international students

  • Applicants are registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or, in Northern Ireland, with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
  • Applicants are in good standing with the GPhC and/or PSNI and any other healthcare regulator with which they are registered.
  • Applicants must have relevant experience in a UK pharmacy setting and be able to recognise, understand and articulate the skills and attributes required by a prescriber to act as the foundation of their prescribing practice whilst training.
  • For the purposes of developing their independent prescribing practice applicants must identify an area of clinical or therapeutic practice on which to base their learning.
  • Applicants must have a designated prescribing practitioner who has agreed to supervise their learning in practice. The applicants designated prescribing practitioner must be a registered healthcare professional in Great Britain or Northern Ireland with legal independent prescribing rights, who is suitably experienced and qualified to carry out this supervisory role, and who has demonstrated CPD or revalidation relevant to this role.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About UCL (University College London)

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