The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Amendment of regulation 3 of the PMS Agreements Regulations

9.  In regulation 3 of the PMS Agreements Regulations (interpretation)(1)—

(a) after the definition of “out of hours services” insert—

““paramedic independent prescriber” means a person—

(a)

who is either engaged or employed by the contractor or who is a party to the agreement;

(b)

who is registered in the register maintained by the Health and Care Professions Council under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 (establishment and maintenance of register)(2); and

(c)

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

(b) for the definition of “prescriber” substitute—

““prescriber” means—

(a)

a chiropodist or podiatrist independent prescriber;

(b)

an independent nurse prescriber;

(c)

a medical practitioner;

(d)

an optometrist independent prescriber;

(e)

a paramedic independent prescriber;

(f)

a pharmacist independent prescriber;

(g)

a physiotherapist independent prescriber;

(h)

a supplementary prescriber; and

(i)

a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber;”;

(c) in the definition of “relevant register”, for paragraph (d)(i) to (iii) substitute—

“(i) chiropodists and podiatrists,

(ii) paramedics,

(iii) physiotherapists, or

(iv) radiographers;”; and

(d) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, for paragraph (b)(iv) substitute—

“(iv) the register maintained by the Health and Care Professions Council under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 (establishment and maintenance of register) relating to—

(aa) chiropodists and podiatrists,

(bb) dieticians,

(cc) paramedics,

(dd) physiotherapists, or

(ee) radiographers, or”.

(1)

Relevant amendments to regulation 3 were made by S.I. 2016/1077.

(2)

S.I. 2002/254.