The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services and Pharmaceutical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006

Amendment of regulation 2 of the PMS Agreements Regulations

4.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the PMS Agreements Regulations—

(a) 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;”;

(b) 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 party to the agreement,

(b)

who is registered in the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act 1954(1) or the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976(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;”;

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

“(aa) a pharmacist independent prescriber,”; and

(d) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, in sub-paragraph (c), after “prescriber” insert “or, in the case of the Nursing and Midwifery Register, a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber”.

(1)

1954 c. 61.

(2)

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