NPC Plus

"Leading Improvements in Prescribing and Medicines Management"

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School of Pharmacy

About NPC Plus

NPC Plus sits within the School of Pharmacy at Keele University and operates within a unique partnership between the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Keele University. Its key function is to improve patient care by supporting effective prescribing and medicines management in the broadest sense by:

  • Supporting individuals with prescribing and medicines management
  • Promoting the concept of concordance and shared decision-making as approaches for helping patients get the most from their medicines
  • Providing individuals with knowledge and skills to make good clinical and cost-effective prescribing decisions involving patients
  • Helping organisations to understand and implement medicines policy and re-design services where appropriate, to implement sustainable change

Useful links:

The National Prescribing Centre: http://www.npc.co.uk/

Keele University, School of Pharmacy: http://www.keele.ac.uk/pharmacy/

NPC Plus helps organisations to understand and implement medicines policy and practices, redesign services where appropriate and affect substantial change.  NPC Plus provides individuals with knowledge and skills to make good prescribing decisions involving patients.

Who benefits from our input?

Our flexible approach means we can tailor programmes to suit a wide audience including:

  • Individual healthcare professionals
  • GP practices
  • Community pharmacy
  • Local prescribing committees
  • Primary Care Trusts
  • Strategic Health Authorities
  • The independent healthcare sector

Who we work with:

We work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver our established programme and develop and deliver bespoke projects.

 

Our commissioners include:

  • Department of Health
  • NHS Education for Scotland
  • Primary Care Trusts
  • Acute Trusts
  • Health and Social Service Boards, Northern Ireland
  • Community pharmacy multiples
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Publishing companies