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Clinical guidance
Guidance for Professional Practice
COVID-19 guidance and resources
Clinical Management Guidelines
Optometrists' Formulary
Clinical advisers
Clinical files
Guidance for therapeutics
Supplementary guidance
Using Evidence in Practice
Position statements
Ethical scenarios
Professional development
Events
CPD hub
Introduction to CPD
Online learning
Peer discussion and peer review
DOCET distance learning
Further qualifications
Independent prescribing (IP) qualification
Higher qualifications
College journals
Acuity
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO)
Optometry In Practice
Fellowship by Portfolio
Library and information services
Qualifying
Scheme for Registration
Optometry students
International pre-registration trainees
Assessors and Examiners
The Education Strategic Review
Sector Partnership for Optical Knowledge and Education (SPOKE)
A career in optometry
Membership
Join us today
Membership categories and fees
Reclaim your tax
Member resources
Life and Honorary Fellowship (FCOptom)
Taking a career break
Member Code of Conduct
The Benevolent Fund
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Research Excellence Awards
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Independent Prescribing
Independent Prescribing enables optometrists to clinically assess a patient, establish a diagnosis, determine the clinical management required and prescribe where necessary.
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How to get an Independent Prescribing qualification
The clinical placement
The IP logbook
The Therapeutics Common Final Assessment (TCFA)
Resources for IP qualified members
Resources for IP qualified members
As well as saving £150 on the IP logbook, College members completing an IP qualification can:
attend
IP CPD events online or in their region
take part in a
College IP peer discussion
meet their CPD requirements with dedicated
IP learning modules
select therapeutics CPD seminars and workshops at
Optometry Tomorrow
, the College’s annual conference
access our online private prescription form in your
My College
area
join the discussion, or start a thread on the IP forum.
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How to get an Independent Prescribing qualification
The clinical placement
The IP logbook
The Therapeutics Common Final Assessment (TCFA)
Resources for IP qualified members