The National Health Service (Physiotherapist, Podiatrist or Chiropodist Independent Prescribers) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2014

Amendment of the 2013 Regulations

6.—(1) The 2013 Regulations are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1), in the appropriate place in the alphabetical order insert the following definitions—

““physiotherapist independent prescriber” (“ffisiotherapydd-ragnodydd annibynnol”) means a person—

(a)

who is a physiotherapist, and

(b)

against whose name in Part 9 of the register maintained under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2011 is recorded an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a physiotherapist independent prescriber;”;

““podiatrist or chiropodist independent prescriber” (“podiatrydd-ragnodydd neu giropodydd-ragnodydd annibynnol”) means a person—

(a)

who is a podiatrist or a chiropodist, and

(b)

against whose name in Part 2 of the register maintained under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2011 is recorded an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a podiatrist or chiropodist independent prescriber;”.

(3) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “prescriber” substitute—

““prescriber” (“rhagnodydd”) means a doctor, dentist, independent nurse prescriber, nurse independent prescriber, optometrist independent prescriber, pharmacist independent prescriber, physiotherapist independent prescriber, podiatrist or chiropodist independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber;”.