In a group or as an individual identify those practitioners who you have worked with who are prescribers and identity the context in which they are able to prescribe medicines.

Independent prescribers

• doctors
• dentists
• nurse independent prescribers
• pharmacist independent prescribers
• optometrist independent prescribers
• physiotherapists
• podiatrists
• therapeutic radiologists

Supplementary prescribers

• nurses/midwives
• pharmacists
• diagnostic radiographers
• therapeutic radiographers
• optometrists
• dietitians

More professions are being considered including paramedics.