Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Primary research conducted in the UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and/or Wales).	International/UK literature reviews, meta-analyses or meta-synthesis and/or grey literature.
Studies employing participatory and/or non-participatory data collection methods within any qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods design.	Quantitative studies not employing qualitative data collection methods.
Studies addressing IP by legislated non-doctor healthcare professionals.	Studies addressing supplementary, dependent and/or collaborative models of prescribing.
Studies addressing primary/community care IP.	Studies addressing secondary care and/or mixed primary and secondary care IP.
Studies presenting empirical evidence of barriers and/or facilitators to IP implementation.
Studies addressing non-context specific educational programmes for non-medical IP.
Peer reviewed, full-text articles published between 01 January 2010 and 30 September 2021 in the English language.

IP, independent prescribing.