The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 2004

Amendment of Schedule 3A to the principal Order

3.  In the table in Schedule 3A to the principal Order(1) (substances which may be prescribed, administered or directed for administration by extended formulary nurse prescribers and conditions for such prescription or administration)—

(a) for the entry for “Erythromycin”, in column 2, after “External Use” insert “or oral”;

(b) for the entry “Fusidic acid”, in column 2 for “Opthalmic Use” substitute “External Use”;

(c) for the entry “Hycosine butylbromide”, in column 2, after “parenteral” insert “or transdermal”;

(d) for the entry “Hycosine hydrobromide”, in column 2, for “Oral, parenteral or transdermal administration in palliative care” substitute “Oral or parenteral administration in palliative care”;

(e) for the entry “Metronidazole”, in column 2 for “External use or oral” substitute “External use, oral or rectal”;

(f) for the entry “Prednisolone sodium phosphate”, in column 2, after “Aural” insert “or oral”;

(g) in column 1 insert, at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order of the entries as they appear in that column, each of the entries set out in column 1 below, and in column 2 insert, against those entries, the corresponding entries in column 2 below—

Column 1	Column 2
Amitriptyline hydrochloride	Oral
Azithromycin dihydrate	Oral
Carbamazepine	Oral or rectal
Clavulanic acid	Oral
Conjugated oestrogens (equine)	External use
Diclofenac potassium	Oral
Diclofenac sodium	Oral or rectal
Erythromycin ethyl succinate	Oral
Erythromycin stearate	Oral
Estradiol	External use
Estriol	External use
Etonogestrel	Implant
Flumazenil	Parenteral
Gabapentin	Oral
Glucagon hydrochloride	Parenteral
Glucose	Parenteral
Imipramine hydrochloride	Oral
Lignocaine hydrochloride	External use or parenteral
Lymecycline	Oral
Nortriptyline hydrochloride	Oral
Prednisolone	Oral
Salbutamol sulphate	Inhalation
Sodium fusidate	External use
Terbutaline sulphate	Inhalation

(1)

Schedule 3A was inserted by SI 2002/549, and amended by SI 2003/696 and 2915.