Article 17 Independent nurse prescribers and supplementary prescribersI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had notified the Board of any matters relating to an independent nurse prescriber or a supplementary prescriber under paragraph 35A or paragraph 35B of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations^f1, the succeeding contractor shall not be required to notify the Board of those same matters under –

(a)

the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 60 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or

(b)

the equivalent term of his default contract.

(2)

In paragraph (1) “independent nurse prescriber” and “supplementary prescriber” have the same meaning as in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations^f2.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 17 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 35A was inserted by S.R. 2001 No. 167 and paragraph 35B was inserted by S.R. 2003 No. 447
f2: These definitions were inserted into paragraph 1 by S.R. 2003 No. 447