The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 2002

Amendment of article 1 of the principal Order

2.—(1) Article 1 of the principal Order (citation, commencement and interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) omit the definition of “appropriate nurse practitioner”;

(b) after the definition of “cyanogenetic substances” insert the following definition—

• ““district nurse/health visitor prescriber” means—

  (a)

  a person who—

  (i)

  is registered in Part 1 or 12 of the professional register, and

  (ii)

  has a district nursing qualification additionally recorded in the professional register under rule 11 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules 1983(1); or

  (b)

  a person who is registered in Part 11 of the professional register as a health visitor,

  against whose name (in each case) is recorded in the professional register an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances for patients;”;

(c) after the definition of “dosage unit” insert the following definitions—

““Extended Formulary” means the Nurse Prescribers’ Extended Formulary Appendix in the current edition of the British National Formulary;

“extended formulary nurse prescriber” means a person—

(a)

who is registered in Parts 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 of the professional register; and

(b)

against whose name is recorded in that register an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances from the Extended Formulary;”;

(d) in the definition of “health prescription”, for “or nurse prescriber” insert “, a district nurse/health visitor prescriber or an extended formulary nurse prescriber”;

(e) after the definition of “Primary Care Trust”(2) insert the following definition—

““professional register” means the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council(3) pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001(4);”;

(f) in the definition of “registered midwife”, for the words from “the Register” to the end substitute “the professional register”;

(g) in the definition of “registered nurse”, for the words from “the Register” to the end substitute “the professional register”;

(h) in the definition of “state registered chiropodist”, for the words from “the Register” to the end substitute “the register of chiropodists maintained by the Health Professions Council(5) pursuant to paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Health Professions Order 2001(6)”; and

(i) in the definition of “state registered paramedic”, for the words from “the Register” to the end substitute “the register of paramedics maintained by the Health Professions Council pursuant to paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Health Professions Order 2001”.

(3) In paragraph (5)(7), for “Schedules 1, 2 and 5” substitute “Schedules 1, 2, 3A and 5”.

(1)

The rules were approved by S.I. 1983/873; there are amendments to the rules which are not relevant to this Order.

(2)

Inserted by article 2(a) of S.I. 2000/1917.

(3)

See article 3 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, S.I. 2002/253.

(4)

S.I. 2002/253.

(5)

See article 3 of the Health Professions Order 2001, S.I. 2002/254.

(6)

S.I. 2002/254.

(7)

Paragraph (5) was amended by article 2 of S.I. 2001/2777.