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The National Health Service (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Independent Prescribing) (Wales) Regulations 2010

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Amendment of the National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2007E+W

4.—(1) The National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2007(1) are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) —

(a)for the definition of “independent nurse prescriber” (“nyrs sy'n rhagnodi'n annibynnol”), substitute —

  • “independent nurse prescriber” (“nyrs sy'n rhagnodi'n annibynnol”) means a person —

    (a)

    who is registered in the Nursing and Midwifery Register, and

    (b)

    against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation or entry signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a community practitioner nurse prescriber;;

(b)for the definition of “nurse independent prescriber” (“nyrs-ragnodydd annibynnol”) substitute the following —

  • “nurse independent prescriber” (“nyrs-ragnodydd annibynnol”) means a person —

    (a)

    whose name is registered in the Nursing and Midwifery Register, and

    (b)

    against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation or entry signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as—

    (i)

    a nurse independent prescriber, or

    (ii)

    a nurse independent/ supplementary prescriber, and

    (c)

    who, in respect of a person practising in Wales on or after 19 July 2010, has passed an accredited course to practise as a nurse independent prescriber;;

(c)in the definition of “relevant register” (“cofrestr berthnasol”), for paragraph (b) substitute the following —

(b)in relation to a pharmacist, Part 1 of the register maintained under article 10(1) of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 or the register maintained in pursuance of articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;;

(d)in the definition of “supplementary prescriber” (“rhagnodydd atodol”) —

(i)for paragraph (a)(ii), substitute the following—

  • Part 1 of the register maintained under article 10(1) of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007; and

(ii)in paragraph (b) after the words “as a supplementary prescriber”, add the words “, save in the case of the Nursing and Midwifery Register, where the annotation or entry signifies qualification as a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber;”; and

(e)in the appropriate place insert the following definition —

  • “the POM Order” (“y Gorchymyn MBU”) means the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997(2);.

(3) After paragraph (2) of regulation 2, insert the following paragraph —

(2A) Where the term “community practitioner nurse prescriber” appears in the POM Order or the Nursing and Midwifery Register it is to be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as a reference to an “independent nurse prescriber”..

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I1Reg. 4 in force at 19.7.2010, see reg. 1(1)

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