Guy’s Campus
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Overview
Our Pharmacist Independent Prescribing (PIP) postgraduate course is part-time, flexible and competency-based. This is a GPhC accredited course for qualified pharmacists wanting to prescribe autonomously for conditions within their clinical competence.
Key benefits
- We are ranked top 6 in the UK for Pharmacy & Pharmacology (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026).
- Our teaching is led by experienced independent prescribing pharmacists and academic staff, ensuring a strong balance between clinical practice and academic excellence.
- The course combines multi-professional, university-based study days with flexible e-learning and work-based education, allowing you to integrate learning directly into your clinical role.
- This course is accredited by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), ensuring it meets the highest professional standards.
- Course content and assessments are designed to reflect the most up-to-date clinical practice, supporting you as a newly qualified pharmacist prescriber in your workplace. In addition, the programme includes dedicated disease-specific teaching sessions delivered by specialist clinicians in their fields from King’s Health Partners, providing valuable expert insight into real-world patient care.
- We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.
Course essentials
This course aims to deliver competent pharmacist prescribers who can provide an independent and supplementary prescribing service which is safe and effective and takes into account the needs of patients, the professions and the relevant health organisations.
We will:
- Meet the requirements of the GPhC indicative syllabus for pharmacist independent prescribing
- Support experienced practitioners to review and reflect on their current practice, to enable them to determine what skills, knowledge and attitudes they need to develop in order to become independent prescribers
- Enable practitioners to evolve an expertise in the art and science of prescribing
This course will enable healthcare professionals to take on the role of an independent and/or supplementary prescriber. The GPhC publish an indicative syllabus and learning outcomes which informs the curriculum.
The GPhC mandates a minimum of 26 days teaching and learning and a minimum of 12 (x 7.5 h) days in practice spent under the supervision of a designated prescribing practitioner (DPP).
For cohort dates and application deadlines, please see the 'Teaching & Modules' tab.
Administrative bodies
Course accreditation
Reviewed, inspected and accredited by the General Pharmaceutical Council
Regulating body
Application closing date guidance
Please click the relevant link in the table below to access Key Dates, for the relevant cohort that you wish to join. This document contains dates for all taught sessions, the DPP session, assessment days and online sessions.
| Application deadlines for 2026/27 | Key Dates | |
| Cohort | Deadline for applications | |
| September 2026 | Closed for applications. More dates coming shortly. | Please view for details |
Please note:
If you are a funded applicant, please apply via: Postgraduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing (Practice Certificate) NHSE (Part-time)
If you are a self-funded applicant, please apply via: Pharmacist Independent Prescribing PGCert (Part-time)
If you are a funded applicant, please apply via: Postgraduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing (Practice Certificate) NHSE (Part-time)
If you are a self-funded applicant, please apply via: Pharmacist Independent Prescribing PGCert (Part-time)
Base campuses
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
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