The National Health Service (Amendments concerning Supplementary and Independent Nurse Prescribing) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2001

4.—(1) The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2001(1) are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) insert each of the following definitions in the appropriate place in the alphabetical order—

““Drug Tariff” (“Tariff Cyffuriau”) means the statement compiled, published and amended from time to time by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 (standards of , and payments for, drugs and appliances);”;

““independent nurse prescriber” (“nyrs sy'n rhagnodi'n annibynnol”) means—

(a)

a person whose name is registered—

(i)

in Part 1 or 12 of the nurses and midwives' professional register and has a district nurse qualification additionally recorded in the nurses and midwives' professional register pursuant to rule 11 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules 1983, or

(ii)

in Part 11 of the nurses and midwives' professional register as a health visitor,

and against whose name is recorded in the nurses and midwives' professional register an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances from the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for District Nurses and Health Visitors in Part XVII B(i) of the Drug Tariff; or

(b)

a person—

(i)

whose name is registered in Parts 1,3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 of the nurses and midwives' professional register, and

(ii)

against whose name is recorded in the nurses and midwives' professional register an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances from the Nurse Prescribers' Extended Formulary in Part XVIIB (ii) of the Drug Tariff;”;

““nurses and midwives' professional register” (“cofrester proffesiwn nyrsys a beydwragedd”) means the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001;” and

““supplementary prescriber” (“rhagnodydd atodol”) means a person whose name is registered in —

(a)

Parts 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 of the nurses and midwives' professional register;

(b)

the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act 1954; or

(c)

the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976,

and against whose name is recorded in the relevant register an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a supplementary prescriber;”;

(b) in the definition of “prescription form” (“ffurflen bresgripsiwn”), for “dentist or nurse prescriber” substitute “dentist, supplementary prescriber or independent nurse prescriber”; and

(c) the definition of “nurse prescriber” is omitted.

(3) In regulation 6(1) (supply of drugs and appliances at walk-in centres), for “doctor or nurse prescriber” substitute “doctor, supplementary prescriber or independent nurse prescriber”.

(1)

S.I.2001/1358 to which there are no relevant amending instruments.