Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation and application) is amended as follows.

In paragraph (1)–

In the definition of “pharmaceutical services”, at the end there is added “but not including directed services;”.

For paragraph (1A)^f4 there is substituted–

“(1A)

The specified description of a nurse or health visitor mentioned in the definition of “nurse prescriber” in paragraph (1) is–

(a)

a person who is registered in Part 1 or 12 of the register maintained under the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997^f5 (referred to below in this paragraph as “the professional register”), has a district nursing qualification additionally recorded in the professional register maintained under rule 11 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules 1983^f6, and is, at the time of ordering the listed drug or medicine or listed appliance–

(i)

employed as a district nurse by a Board or an NHS trust; or

(ii)

employed as a nurse by a doctor whose name is included in a medical list or who, at that time, is assisting in the performance of personal medical services;

(b)

a person who is registered in Part 11 of the professional register as a health visitor and is, at the time of ordering the listed drug or medicine or listed appliance–

(i)

employed as a health visitor by a Board or an NHS trust; or

(ii)

employed as a health visitor by a doctor whose name is included in a medical list or who, at that time, is assisting in the performance of personal medical services;

against whose name (in each case) is recorded in the professional register an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances for patients.”.