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

National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000

34.  In the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000(1), in regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

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

““independent nurse prescriber” means a person—

(a)

who is registered in Sub-Part 1 of the Nurses' Part or in the Midwives' Part of the nurses and midwives' professional 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 District Nurses and Health Visitors in Part XVIIB(i) of the Drug Tariff, or

(ii)

the Nurse Prescribers' Extended Formulary in Part XVIIB(ii) 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”; and

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

“(a) Sub-Part 1 of the Nurses' Part or in the Midwives Part' of the nurses and midwives' professional register;”.

(1)

S.I. 2000/620. Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2003/699 and 2004/865. Other amendments have been made which are not relevant to this Order.