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Medicines management: Is it safe for newly qualified nurses to be allowed to prescribe?

Allowing newly qualified nurses to prescribe from a limited formulary could give patients safer access to medicines, says medicines management expert Matt Griffiths. 
Posted 29 March 2017 - 08:44
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