# The Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022, Regulation 2: Amendment of regulation 2 of the Pharmaceutical Regulations


(1) Regulation 2(1) of the Pharmaceutical Regulations (interpretation) is amended as follows.
(2) After “appropriate non-proprietary name” insert —
““authorisation” means permission to supply a drug in accordance with a PTP;”.
(3) After “the Order” insert —
““paramedic independent prescriber” means a person—
(a) who is registered in Part 8 of the register maintained under Article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001; and
(b) against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation signifying that person is qualified to order drugs, medicines or appliances as a paramedic independent prescriber;”.
(4) For the definition of “prescriber” substitute—
““prescriber” means a doctor, dentist, a chiropodist or podiatrist independent prescriber, an independent nurse prescriber, an optometrist independent prescriber, a paramedic independent prescriber, a pharmacist independent prescriber, a physiotherapist independent prescriber, a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber;”.
(5) After “the Prescription of Drugs Regulations” insert—
““PTP” means a pandemic treatment protocol, which is a protocol—
(a) relating to the supply of a prescription only medicine to be used for the prevention of or as a treatment for a disease that is, or in anticipation of it being imminently, pandemic; and
(b) approved in accordance with regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease);”.
(6) For the definition of “relevant register” substitute—
““relevant register” means—
(a) in relation to a nurse, the Nursing and Midwifery Register;
(b) in relation to a paramedic, the register maintained under Article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001; and
(c) in relation to a pharmacist, the register maintained under Article 10(1) (the Register of Pharmacists) of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 or the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 (the registers) and 9 (the register) of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976; ”.
(7) In the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—
(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (a)(iv)(bb) and (cc), omit “or” at both places where it occurs; and
(b) after sub-paragraph (a)(iv)(cc) insert “(dd) dietitians; or”;
(8) In the definition of “terms of service”, omit “and”;
(9) After “terms of service” insert —
““therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber” means a person—
(a) who is a registered radiographer; and
(b) against whose name is recorded in the relevant register –
(i) an entitlement to use the title “therapeutic radiographer”, and
(ii) an annotation signifying that the person is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber; and”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/31/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022/regulation-2
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