ClarifyWho is requesting what, for whom and why now?
Virtual Pharmacist partner benefit
15% off practical training for your whole primary care team
Your Virtual Pharmacist partner benefit makes realistic, role-specific training more affordable. Start with prescription clerk development, then explore pathways for your wider practice team, pharmacists and GP registrars.
Independent online training using fictional patients and simulated primary care tasks. It complements local induction, supervision and workplace competency assessment.
Recommended starting point
For prescription clerks, scripts administrators and medicines admin teams
The Prescription Clerk Programme
A focused, plain-English pathway for the people who handle repeat prescription requests. Learners practise the everyday decisions that keep requests accurate, timely and safely within role.
Standard price £195£165.75for approved VP Partner members
- Know what can be processed and what must be escalated
- Capture clear, complete prescription requests
- Work through realistic fictional patient records
- Build evidence through modules, simulation and assessment
Prescription requestTraining view
CheckUse the fictional record to find missing or conflicting information.
Act or escalateChoose the safe next step and close the loop.
Clear decisions, safer handovers
Why start with prescription clerks?
Improve the request before it reaches a prescriber
Consistent prescription administration can reduce avoidable back-and-forth and give clinical colleagues clearer information to act on. The programme concentrates on the everyday behaviours a practice can reinforce locally.
More complete requests
Capture the right patient, medicine, timing and reason before routing the task.
Safer escalation
Recognise what falls outside the clerk role and hand it to the right clinician or team.
Better closed loops
Record the action, communicate the outcome and avoid leaving requests unresolved.
One partner, several roles
Give each team member training that fits their work
The same practice can support non-clinical staff, pharmacy professionals and GP learners without asking everyone to follow the same generic course.
Reception, care navigation and prescription teams
Role boundaries, confidentiality, complete requests, safe escalation and realistic desk-based practice for the staff who keep patient journeys moving.
Explore practice-team trainingPrimary care clinical modules and simulations
Structured pathways for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, with clinical topics, fictional patient records, practice labs and evidence of learning.
Explore pharmacist pathwaysGP ST3 prescribing support and audits
Show GP colleagues the online prescribing clinic, pharmacist-supported ST3 review options and wider practice or PCN prescribing audit and quality-improvement support.
Explore GP prescribing support
For the GP or prescribing lead
More than staff training
Medicine in Practice also supports clinical development and prescribing governance. GP registrars can prepare with balanced fictional prescribing cases, while practices can discuss pharmacist reviews of ST3 prescription samples or a wider prescribing audit.
The 15% partner benefit applies to self-paced online courses. Pharmacist reviews, prescribing audits and bespoke organisational services are scoped and priced separately, with information governance agreed before work begins.
Connected partner support
Visit Virtual Pharmacist
Medicine in Practice and Virtual Pharmacist
Medicine in Practice provides the online learning and simulations shown here. Virtual Pharmacist provides clinical pharmacy services for GP practices, PCNs and commissioners across the UK.
Using your benefit
No code to remember
- 1Create your accountRegister using the email address connected to your partner organisation.
- 2Confirm partner accessYour organisation or Medicine in Practice confirms that the account is eligible for the VP Partner benefit.
- 3Choose your courseThe 15% saving appears automatically on eligible online course purchases at checkout.
Ready to involve the team?
Start with your prescription clerks
Tell us who needs access and we will help you choose the right starting point for clerks, practice staff, pharmacists or GP learners.