The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004

National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

43.  In the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995(1), in regulation 2 (interpretation and application), in paragraph (1) —

(a) for the definition of “independent nurse prescriber” substitute—

““independent nurse prescriber” means a person—

(a)

who is registered in the Nursing and Midwifery Register, and—

(b)

in respect of whom an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances from—

(i)

the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for Community Nurses and Health Visitors in Part 8B of the Drug Tariff, or

(ii)

the Nurse Prescribers' Extended Formulary in Part 8C of the Drug Tariff;

is also recorded in that register;”;

(b) in the definition of “nurses' and midwives' professional register”, for “pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to”, substitute “under article 5 of”;

(c) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, for sub-paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a) the Nursing and Midwifery Register; ”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/414. Relevant amendments were made by S.S.I. 2003/296. Amendments have been made which are not relevant to this Order.