Amendment of Regulation 2 of the GMS Contracts Regulations
2.—(1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) of the GMS Contracts Regulations shall be amended as provided in the following paragraphs.
(2) In the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—
(a)in paragraph (b)(ii), omit “or”;
(b)in paragraph (b)(iii), for “and”, in the second place where it occurs, substitute “or”; and
(c)after paragraph (b)(iii), insert—
“(iv)the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council in pursuance of Article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001(1) relating to—
(aa)chiropodists and podiatrists;
(bb)physiotherapists; or
(cc)radiographers: diagnostic or therapeutic;
(dd)optometrists, and”.
(1)
S.I. 2002/254