Specialist Practice (Health and Justice Nursing)* PgDip
Become an independent prescriber within your scope of practice, gaining an academic award and two professional awards (SPQ Specialist Practice in Health and Justice Nursing and Non-medical Prescribing
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Qualification
- PgDip
- Location
- Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
- Intake months
- January, September
- International tuition
- GBP 16,150 (annual) — 2026/27
- Entry requirements
- You must: have an NMC-valid registration as a registered first-level nurse and at least one year’s experience post-registration in the field in which you intend to practice (to meet the NMP entry criteria, you must have 3 years’ experience post-qualifying at the point of commencing the NMP module which starts in January of Year 1 if studying full-time or January of year 2 if studying part-time) be successful at interview have a degree or RPL equivalent be professionally practising in a role where there is an identified need to prescribe be approved by the employing trust or organisation’s non-medical prescribing lead and service manager who must provide verification of your suitability to prescribe have an NMP practice assessor or designated prescribing practitioner to provide supervision, support and opportunities to develop competence in practice pass a 20-question drug calculations