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In March 2025 the NHSBSA reported a further increase in the prescribing and dispensing of mental health medications in England.
This conference will look at national developments in nurse prescribing in mental health, improving and maintaining prescribing competence and the use of the national prescribing competency framework in mental health. The conference will update delegates on the July 2025 new NMC Principles for Advanced Practice, and the implications of the recent 10 year plan for health which prioritises the use of pharmacogenomic insights in mental health prescribing. Extended sessions will focus on developing your skills as an effective nurse prescriber and case studies will demonstrate established practice in nurse prescribing on acute inpatient wards, for dual diagnosis, early intervention in psychosis, forensic mental health, learning disabilities and physical health monitoring. The conference will also look at developing nurse prescribing including auditing your prescribing practice, deprescribing, involving people in prescribing decisions, prescribing decision making and supporting the expansion of nurse prescribing practice in mental health.
“In the context of mental health care, positive outcomes have also been reported by patients with mental illness in receipt of NMP services…In this review, the impact of NMP for patients with mental illnesses can be seen to extend across multiple dimensions, significantly benefiting patients, providers, healthcare professionals, and the wider healthcare system… While medical prescribers viewed nurse NMPs as a cost-effective alternative to psychiatrists in this review, NMPs themselves frequently mention feeling under-rewarded and unrecognised.”
Exploring non-medical prescribing for patients with mental illness: a scoping review BMC Psychiatry . 2025 May 19;25:504. doi: 10.1186/s12888-025-06938-6
“The value of advanced clinical practice in the delivery of mental healthcare has long been recognised as occupying a unique space in holistic patient care.”
Professor Mark Radford, Chief Nurse and Deputy Chief Executive (External) NHS England
“People with severe and enduring mental illness face being bounced from one service to another, with little to no continuity.”
Fit for the future: 10 year health plan for England July 2025
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to develop their skills in nurse prescribing practice in a mental health setting
Reflect on the lived experience
Learn from outstanding practice in improve care through nurse prescribing
Update your knowledge on national developments including the July 2025 NMC Principles for Advanced Practice, and the Government 10 year plan for health
Understand where nurse prescribing is working well in mental health
Improve your skills and understanding in prescribing for Co-Morbidities: Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacogenomic Insight And Pharmacodynamics
Develop confidence and competence in your ability to prescribe
Developing the NMPs role in Social Prescribing
Improve the way you use the National Prescribing Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
Ensure the support is in place to prescribe effectively
Reflect on prescribing decision making including difficult issues: pharmacology & prescribing decision making, understanding co-morbidity issues and drug interactions, and issues around sedation
Understand how you can support, audit and expand nurse prescribing practice
Learn from experienced practitioners in developing nurse prescribing on the acute inpatient ward and learn from case studies in dual diagnosis, psychosis, older people with frailty, Dementia, physical health monitoring and forensic mental health
Identify key strategies for reducing polypharmacy and deprescribing
Ensure you are up to date with the latest evidence
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
