The Health and Personal Social Services (Primary Medical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Amendment of regulation 2 of the GMS Contracts Regulations

2.  In regulation 2 (Interpretation) of the GMS Contracts Regulations—

(a) in the definition of “immediate family member”, after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”;

(b) in the definition of “independent nurse prescriber”, for sub-paragraph (c) substitute the following sub-paragraph—

“(c) against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a community practitioner nurse prescriber, a nurse independent prescriber or as a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber;”;

(c) in the definition of “prescriber”, after sub-paragraph (a) insert the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa) a pharmacist independent prescriber,”;

(d) insert the following definition at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order—

““pharmacist independent prescriber” means a person—

(a)

who is either engaged or employed by the contractor or is a party to the contract,

(b)

who is registered in the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976(1) or the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act(2), and

(c)

against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a pharmacist independent prescriber;”;

(1)

S.I. 1976/1213 (N.I. 22)

(2)

1954 c. 61