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The National Health Service (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Community Pharmaceutical Services and Optometrist Prescribing) Regulations 2009
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Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004
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35. In regulation 2 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004(1) (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—
(a)after the definition of “open” insert the following definition—
““optometrist independent prescriber” means a person—
(a)
who is registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of the Opticians Act 1989; and
(b)
against whose name is recorded in that register an annotation signifying that the person is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as an optometrist independent prescriber;”; and
(b)in the definition of “prescriber”, after sub-paragraph (aa), insert the following sub-paragraph—
“(ab)an optometrist independent prescriber;”.
(1)
S.I. 2004/291; amended by S.I. 2004/2694, 2005/893, 3315 and 3491, 2006/1501, 2007/289 and 3491, and 2008/528 and 1700.
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