Non medical prescribing in Scotland: implementation guide

Footnotes

1 From 2001, after the publication of Nursing for Health (2001), Edinburgh: HMSO, the term public health nursing includes both health visiting and school nursing in Scotland.

2 The Medicinal Products: Prescription by Nurses, etc. Act 1992 [which amended the National Health Service Act 1977 (section 41) and the Medicines Act 1968 (section 58)]; The Medicinal Products: Prescription by Nurses, etc Act 1992: (Commencement No 1) Order 1994; and in Scotland, Scottish Statutory Instrument, SSI No.1504, The National Health Service (General Medical Services Pharmaceutical Services and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 1996.

3 Community practitioner nurse prescribers cannot prescribe controlled drugs or act as supplementary prescribers otherwise the guidance in paragraphs 70 - 118 is relevant.

4 Formerly District Nurse and Health Visitor/Public Health Nurse prescribing.

5 Previously called the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for District Nurses and Health Visitors.

6 NMC (2002) Code of Professional Conduct: standards for conduct, performance and ethics. London: NMC.

7 Nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, radiographers, podiatrists and optometrists.

8 See paragraph 67 and Appendix 13 for further information.

9 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

10 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

11 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

12 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

13 NPC (2005) Training non-medical prescribers in practice. Liverpool: NPC.

14 Scottish Executive (2005) Framework for developing nursing roles. Edinburgh: SEHD.

15 NMC (2002) Code of Professional Conduct. London: NMC

16 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC.

17 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

18 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

19 NES (2003) A template for continuing professional development in prescribing. Edinburgh: NHS Education for Scotland.

20 NMC (2002) Code of Professional Conduct: standards of conduct, performance and ethics. London: NMC

21 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

22 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

23 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

24 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

25 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

26 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

27 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

28 NMC (2002) Code of Professional Conduct: standards for conduct, performance and ethics. London: NMC.

29 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers London: NMC

30 NMC (2004) Guidelines for records and record keeping. London: NMC

31 NMC (2004) Guidelines for records and record keeping. London: NMC

32 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

33 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

34 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

35 NMC (2004) Code of Professional Conduct: standards for conduct, performance and ethics. London: NMC.

36 Crown J (1999) Review of prescribing, supply and administration of medicines. London: DOH.

37 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

38 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

39 Crown J (1999) Review of prescribing, supply and administration of medicines. London: DOH.

40 NMC (2004) Guidelines for the Administration of Medicines. London: NMC.

41 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

42 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

43 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

44 NMC (2006) Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC

45 A patient pack is a manufacturer's pack approved by the Licensing Authority which has a label and leaflet and contains an amount of medicine such that the pack is capable of being given whole to a patient to meet all or part of a treatment course. For some medicines special packs containing smaller quantities will be available for starter/titration/trial purposes.

46 In the BNF, pack size is indicated as in this example 'Net price 60-tab pack = £2.25'. Wherever no pack size is indicated, as in 'Net price 20=9p', the quantity is shown for price comparison purposes only.

47 A special container is a pack from which it is not practicable to dispense an exact quantity, or a pack with an integral means of application. This currently includes sterile preparations, effervescent or hygroscopic products, liquid preparations which are intended to be added to bath water, coal tar preparations, viscous preparations and all products packaged in casters, tubes, dropper bottles, aerosols, puffers, roll-on packs, sachets, sprays, shakers, squeeze packs.