The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services, Charges and Prescribing) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 No. 1077

PART 3 Amendments relating to therapeutic radiographer independent prescribers and dietitian supplementary prescribers

Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

23.  In regulation 3 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015(1) (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a) in the definition of “prescriber”—

(i) omit the “and” at the end of paragraph (f),

(ii) in paragraph (g), for “prescriber,” substitute “prescriber; and”, and

(iii) after paragraph (g) insert—

“(h) a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber,”; and

(b) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, in sub-paragraph (b)(iv)—

(i) omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (bb), and

(ii) after sub-paragraph (cc) insert the following sub-paragraph—

“(dd) dietitians, or”; and

(c) after the definition of “temporary resident” insert—

““therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber” means a radiographer—

(a)

who is registered in Part 11 of the register maintained under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001; and

(b)

against whose name in that register is recorded—

(i)

an entitlement to use the title “therapeutic radiographer”, and

(ii)

an annotation signifying that the radiographer is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber;”.

(1)

S.I. 2015/1862; amended by S.I. 2016/696.