General Pharmacy Practice (Prescribing) PG Cert

The entry requirements for the course are stipulated by the GPhC. Pharmacists wishing to apply for this course must fulfil the following requirements:

• a. Applicants are registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or, in Northern Ireland, with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
• b. Applicants are in good standing with the GPhC and/or PSNI and any other healthcare regulator with which they are registered.
• c. Applicants must have relevant experience in a UK pharmacy setting and be able to recognise, understand and articulate the skills and attributes required by a prescriber to act as the foundation of their prescribing practice whilst training.
• d. For the purposes of developing their independent prescribing practice applicants must identify an area of clinical or therapeutic practice on which to base their learning.
• e. Applicants must have a designated prescribing practitioner who has agreed to supervise their learning in practice. The applicant’s designated prescribing practitioner must be a registered healthcare professional in Great Britain or Northern Ireland with legal independent prescribing rights, who is suitably experienced and qualified to carry out this supervisory role, and who has demonstrated CPD or revalidation relevant to this role.
• f. Admissions require a lower second class Bachelor's degree, or an Overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. The country profiles on the following page provide more detail about the qualification equivalency information for all countries: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/international/country-search.

The English language level for this programme is: Applicants must be registered pharmacists with the GPhC/PSNI and must be able to meet the professional standards of the relevant professional body relating to communication. International students: Applicants must be registered pharmacists with the GPhC or PSNI and have patient orientated experience in the UK. The learning in practice element of the course must be undertaken in the UK under the supervision of a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) who meets the criteria for acting as a DPP..

Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.

Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English

UCL Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English courses are for international students who are aiming to study for a postgraduate degree at UCL. The courses will develop your academic English and academic skills required to succeed at postgraduate level.

The UCL Clinically Enhanced Pharmacist Independent Prescribing (CEPIP) course is an integrated clinically enhanced pharmacist independent prescribing course. ‘Clinically enhanced’ refers to the additional skills that you will acquire around history taking and physical examination as part of the UCL independent prescribing course.