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Building DPP capacity for pharmacist training

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NHS England Workforce, Training and Education fellowship project investigating barriers and challenges to establishing DPP capacity to provide prescribing training supervision for foundation trainee pharmacists as well as qualified pharmacists.

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2025-26: Introduction of independent prescribing (IP) to IET standards1 for foundation trainee Outputspharmacist programme (FTPP). Requirement for 90 prescribing hours to be supervised by aDPP (an active prescriber from any profession)
Project aims:
• Identify knowledge and experience gaps
• Build on exemplars and good practice models to develop future DPP workforce
• Create a peer support network within the Midlands
• Explore support for independent prescribing (IP) supervision across professions

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NHS England Workforce, Training and Education fellowship project investigating barriers and challenges to establishing DPP capacity to provide prescribing training supervision for foundation trainee pharmacists as well as qualified pharmacists.

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Contributed by: WE-R NHS (Workforce and Education Research NHS)
Authored by: Carol Bright, NHS England Pharmacy Clinical Fellow
Authored on: 9 September 2025
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First contributed: 12 September 2025
Audience access level: General user

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