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‘Very desperate’: Boom in pay-for-DPP services as GP surgery ‘doors close’

 
• By Kate Bowie

A snowballing number of pharmacists who “feel like they're missing out” are willing to fork out thousands for a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) to complete their independent prescribing (IP) qualification, C+D has learned.

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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