Short answer
You need venepuncture competence, since PRP starts with drawing the patient’s blood, but you don’t need it before booking a well-designed course. Ours teaches and assesses phlebotomy within the PRP day. Practitioners with existing blood-taking experience simply progress faster on the practical.
This is the most asked and least answered PRP question in the UK, and most course pages simply assume phlebotomy and let delegates discover the gap on the day. Our PRP course builds it in: venepuncture anatomy and technique, assessed draws, failed-draw troubleshooting, plus the blood-handling compliance layer (sharps, spillage, single-patient same-session rules) that keeps your service on the right side of blood-establishment regulation.