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.
NPC Facilitator Programme
NPC legacy site
Although no new Medicines and prescribing content will be published to the NPC legacy website, the extensive catalogue of existing publications, resources and e-learning materials will still be available to view and download for as long as the information contained within them remains accurate and up-to-date. All future Medicines and prescribing outputs will be published on the NICE website and signposted from the Medicines and prescribing homepage.
The NPC facilitator (NPCF) programme is a new initiative developed by the NPC, which incorporates the skills and knowledge from our previous local therapeutic, medicines management and decision-making facilitator roles, and combines them with learning from other NPC programmes such as non-medical prescribing and controlled drug accountable officers.
The aim of the NPC facilitator programme is:
“To support regional implementation of the QIPP in relation to prescribing and medicines management”.
To achieve this aim, NPCFs will each focus on one of ten geographical regions across England; working with locally defined networks including emerging commissioning consortia, PCT clusters, and other existing NHS organisations, (such as Secondary Care and Mental Health Trusts) in order to:
- Identify current issues relating to the use of medicines and support the development of action plans.
- Provide advice and support to key individuals to allow them to cascade relevant information within their own organisations.
- Signpost individuals or organisations to further NPC support.
- Facilitate the identification and sharing of good practice.
