Patient Group Direction

Training Course Overview

This module provides good practice recommendations for individual people and organisations involved with Patient Group Directions (PGDs), with the aim of ensuring patients receive safe and appropriate care and timely access to medicines, in line with legislation.

This guideline is written in the context of the NHS in England, including independent organisations or contractors who are commissioned to provide NHS services. It may also be applicable to individual people and organisations delivering non-NHS healthcare services, and to some of the devolved administrations.

This course is aimed at all Trust Staff, GP Practices, Community Pharmacies, Dentists It provides essential background information on PGDs.

Course Features

Format

Complete anytime

duration

Takes around 45-60 mins

Provides 1 hour of CPD Credit

Automatic Certification

The preferred way for patients to receive medicines is for a trained health care professional to prescribe for individual patients on a one-to-one basis.

An alternative to a prescription for an individual patient is for a prescriber to give a documented Patient Specific Direction (PSD), which instructs another health care professional to supply or administer a medicine to a specified patient.

A Patient Group Direction (PGD) is a written instruction for the sale, supply and/or administration of named medicines in an identified clinical situation. It applies to groups of patients who may not be individually identified before presenting for treatment. A PGD is not a form of prescribing.

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