Pharmacy and social prescribing

This module focuses on the biopsychosocial aspects of patient care. It describes why and how social prescribing is integral to patient care and explores how pharmacists can contribute to meeting patients’ psychosocial needs.

It considers the place of social prescribing within the NHS and explores how community pharmacy can play a greater role in the day-to-day holistic management of patients.

Learning outcomes

After reading this module, you will be able to:

• Understand how social prescribing works in the NHS
• Consider how community pharmacist independent prescribers can better identify wider lifestyle and psychosocial needs to help improve patient care.

Target audience
Community pharmacists, pharmacist independent prescribers, pharmacy teams

By Professor Paul Rutter and Jill Rutter, University of Portsmouth School of Pharmacy