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Regulation 23 Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In regulation 3 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015f1 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a)

in the definition of “prescriber”—

(i)

omit the “and” at the end of paragraph (f),

(ii)

in paragraph (g), for “prescriber,” substitute “prescriber; and”, and

(iii)

after paragraph (g) insert—

“(h)

a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber,”; and

(b)

in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, in sub-paragraph (b)(iv)—

(i)

omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (bb), and

(ii)

after sub-paragraph (cc) insert the following sub-paragraph—

“(dd)

dietitians, or”; and

(c)

after the definition of “temporary resident” insert—

  • ““therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber” means a radiographer—

    1. (a)

      who is registered in Part 11 of the register maintained under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001; and

    2. (b)

      against whose name in that register is recorded—

      1. (i)

        an entitlement to use the title “therapeutic radiographer”, and

      2. (ii)

        an annotation signifying that the radiographer is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2015/1862; amended by S.I. 2016/696.