Important notice:
From 15th May 2012, the team delivering the work of the NPC will form the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Centre and will sit alongside the Clinical Guidelines team within the Centre for Clinical Practice.
As part of NICE, all future Medicines and prescribing outputs will be published on the NICE website and signposted from the Medicines and prescribing home page.
About us
NPC legacy site
From 15th May 2012, the team delivering the work of the NPC will form the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Centre and will sit alongside the Clinical Guidelines team within the Centre for Clinical Practice.
As part of NICE, all future Medicines and prescribing topics will be published on the NICE website and signposted from the Medicines and prescribing homepage.
Who we are
The NPC has been in existence for 15 years, supporting the NHS to improve prescribing,
medicines use and patient care. Over this time we have gained a strong national reputation for delivering high-quality
programmes of work for our core audiences and real value for money with the funding received from the Department
of Health (DH) and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
We have a small, efficient management structure and consequently have been able to develop a flexible, responsive
approach to addressing key clinical and policy issues, as well as emerging service needs. In addition, we employ a
multidisciplinary team approach to our work, enabling outputs to be relevant to, and credible with, a broad spectrum of
clinicians and managers working for the NHS.
What we do
Our ethos has always been to deliver high-quality, targeted outputs, of relevance across the whole NHS, to help healthcare organisations (and key staff who work for them) deliver safe and cost effective medicines use for patients and the public. These outputs, covering therapeutics, medicines management and sharing good practice, are developed in a range of user-friendly formats, increasingly using information technologies, to broaden their reach and impact, and to increase efficiency of delivery.
Therefore, we possess the spectrum of expertise and experience required to support the NHS to deliver cost effective medicines use as part of good patient care and are trusted as an objective and influential national resource.
Who we support
As healthcare budgets become much more challenging, the NPC is focusing its programme on strongly supporting the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) agenda. The national quality and productivity priorities are the primary policy driver of the NPC current work.
In addition, we continue to deliver education, training and development on evidence-based therapeutics and medicines management to healthcare professionals working for the NHS to help ensure they remain up-to-date and competent to undertake their responsibilities involving prescribing and medicines use. Providing targeted learning opportunities for a wide range of professionals, which also reinforce the quality and productivity agenda, will be synergistic in helping to support important policy work on enhancing professional regulation, facilitating continuing professional development (CPD) and thus further improving patient safety and outcomes.
Ultimately, the NPC is committed to playing a key role in helping to achieve increased productivity whilst maintaining or improving the quality of patient care wherever medicines are involved.
Find Us
National Prescribing Centre
Ground Floor, Building 2000Vortex Court, Enterprise Way
Wavertree Technology Park
Liverpool
L13 1FB
Tel No: 0151 353 7700
Fax No: 0151 220 4334
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