{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/121",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992",
  "text": "In the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992, in regulation 2(1A) (which describes nurse prescribers who may issue prescription forms)–\n(a) for head (iii) of sub-paragraph (a) substitute–\n“(iii) is, at the time of ordering the listed drug or medicine or listed appliance–\n(aa) employed as a district nurse by a Health Authority or an NHS trust;\n(bb) employed as a nurse, by a doctor whose name is included in a medical list;\n(cc) assisting in the performance of personal medical services under a pilot scheme; or\n(dd) assisting, in the capacity of a nurse, in the provision of services in a Walk-in Centre which, in this regulation, means a Centre at which information and treatment for minor conditions is provided to the public under arrangements made by or on behalf of the Secretary of State; or”; and\n(b) for head (ii) of sub-paragraph (b) substitute–\n“(ii) is, at the time of ordering the listed drug or medicine or listed appliance–\n(aa) employed as a health visitor by a Health Authority or an NHS trust;\n(bb) employed as a nurse, by a doctor whose name is included in a medical list;\n(cc) assisting in the performance of personal medical services under a pilot scheme; or\n(dd) assisting, in the capacity of a nurse, in the provision of services in a Walk-in Centre;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/662. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/2402, 1996/698, 1998/681 and 1999/696."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I. 1994/2404 and amended by S.I. 1996/698, 1998/681 and 1999/696."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/121/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:34.141712+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}