The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes amendments to—

• the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale-Exemption) Order 1980 (“the Pharmacy and General Sale Order”) which provides for exemptions from sections 52 and 53 of the Medicines Act 1968 (restrictions on the sale and supply of medicinal products); and

• the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 (“the POM Order”) which specifies the description and classes of medicines (“prescription only medicines”) which may be sold or supplied only in accordance with the prescription of an “appropriate practitioner” and may be administered in accordance with the directions of such a practitioner.

Article 2 amends the Pharmacy and General Sale Order to update the range of medicines that may be sold or supplied by chiropodists and to enable podiatrists to sell and supply the same range of medicines.

Article 3 amends Parts 1 and 3 of Schedule 5 to the POM Order to—

• amend the range of medicines that registered midwives are able to sell or supply;

• provide that student midwives who are under the direct supervision of a registered midwife are able to administer certain medicines by injection;

• provide that persons lawfully conducting a pharmacy business are able to sell or supply a specified range of medicines on receipt of a signed order from a chiropodist or podiatrist;

• amend the range of prescription only medicines that may be sold, supplied or administered by chiropodists and podiatrists.

An Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as there is no impact on the private and voluntary sectors.