Patient Group Directions Training

This online Patient Group Directions training course (PGDs) provides good practice recommendations for individual people and organisations involved with PGDs, with the aim of ensuring patients receive safe and appropriate care and timely access to medicines, in line with legislation.

Course takes around 45 to 60 minutes with instant CPD accredited personalised certification on completion.

• Train 1-9 people £19.95 each

• Train 10+ people £13.50 each

• Train 25+ people £7.95 each

• Train 50+ people £6.25 each

• Train 75+ people £5.50 each

• Train 100 people £4.95 each

• Training 100+ people? Contact us for special rates

Th Patient Group Directions (PGD’s) online training course provides good practice recommendations for individual people and organisations involved with PGD’s, with the aim of ensuring patients receive safe and appropriate care and timely access to medicines, in line with legislation.

This guideline is written in the context of the NHS legal framework in England, including independent organisations or contractors who are commissioned to provide NHS services. It may also be applicable to individual people and organisations delivering non-NHS healthcare services, and to some of the devolved administrations.

What is Patient Group Direction?

The preferred way for patients to receive medicines is for a trained health care professional to prescribe for individual patients on a one-to-one basis.

An alternative to a prescription for an individual patient is for a prescriber to give a documented Patient Specific Direction (PSD), which instructs another health care professional to supply or administer a medicine to a specified patient.

A Patient Group Direction (PGD) is a written instruction for the sale, supply and/or administration of named medicines in an identified clinical situation. It applies to groups of patients who may not be individually identified before presenting for treatment. A PGD is not a form of prescribing.

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• Introduction to Patient Group Directions

• Good practice guidance

• What does a patient group direction allow

• What are patient specific directions

• What is a PGD and how is it defined

• Who can use a patient group direction

• What Cannot be supplied under PGD

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This course is designed for staff in various dispensing and non-dispensing roles throughout the Uk healthcare system including:

• Trust Staff

• Doctors and Nurses

• GP Practices

• Community Pharmacies

• Pharmacy employees

• Dentists

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Once setup you can login from your device securely to ClickHSE, our award-winning online health and safety learning management system.

You can complete the course at a time to suit you and use bookmarks to return to your page should you need to take a break.

At the end of the course you will be presented with an assessment of multiple choice questions and will need to score 80% to be awarded the course certificate.

You can re-take the course or assessment as many times as you like during the lifetime of your course subscription.

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On completion of the course the trainee will be awarded a fully personalised certificate which can be printed on the day and is also saved within our secure training platform ClickHSE.

Copies can be made available should a copy be required in the future for your evidential proof of training.

This course is also CPD accredited providing credits for your Continuing Professional Development.

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