Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 20002
In the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 20002, in regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—
a
for the definition of “independent nurse prescriber”3 substitute the following definition—
“independent nurse prescriber” means a person—
- a
who is registered in the Nursing and Midwifery Register; and
- b
against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a community practitioner nurse prescriber, a nurse independent prescriber or a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber;
b
c
after the definition of “Patient Group Direction”6 insert the following definition—
“pharmacist independent prescriber” means a person—
- a
who is registered in the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act 19547 or the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 19768; and
- b
against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a pharmacist independent prescriber;
d
in the definition of “prescriber”9, after “a doctor,” insert “a pharmacist independent prescriber,”;
e
f
for the definition of “supplementary prescriber”12 substitute the following definition—
“supplementary prescriber” means a person—
- a
whose name is registered in—
- i
the Nursing and Midwifery Register,
- ii
the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act 195413,
- iii
the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 197614,
- iv
the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council in pursuance of article 5 of the Health Professions Order 200115 relating to—
- aa
chiropodists and podiatrists,
- bb
physiotherapists, or
- cc
diagnostic or therapeutic radiographers, or
- v
the register of optometrists maintained by the General Optical Council in pursuance of section 7 of the Opticians Act 198916; and
- b
against whose name is recorded in the relevant register an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs and appliances as a supplementary prescriber or, in the case of the Nursing and Midwifery Register, a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber;