PART 3Amendment of the PMS Agreements Regulations

Amendment of regulation 3 of the PMS Agreements Regulations9

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

a

after the definition of “out of hours services” insert—

  • “paramedic independent prescriber” means a person—

    1. a

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

    2. 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)10; and

    3. 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—

    1. a

      a chiropodist or podiatrist independent prescriber;

    2. b

      an independent nurse prescriber;

    3. c

      a medical practitioner;

    4. d

      an optometrist independent prescriber;

    5. e

      a paramedic independent prescriber;

    6. f

      a pharmacist independent prescriber;

    7. g

      a physiotherapist independent prescriber;

    8. h

      a supplementary prescriber; and

    9. 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;

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