Pharmaceutical Services and Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009
These Regulations further amend the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997. The changes arise out of new arrangements for the independent prescribing of drugs and appliances by nurses, opticians and pharmacists. Independent nurse prescribers, unless they are community practitioner nurse prescribers, will no longer be limited to prescribing from a particular formulary, and nor will the new categories of independent prescribers known as optometrist independent prescriber or pharmacist independent prescriber.