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Nurse Prescribing

The rules for nurse prescribing have changed quite considerably over the past few years. This section explains the changes and details the current legislation for the different types of nurse prescriber. It also explains how to set up a nurse prescriber for each country.

Previous definition

Current Definition

District nurse/health visitor fumulary nurses and any nurse undertaking a V100 prescribing programme as part of a Specialist Practitioner

Community practitioner nurse prescribers (V100)

Extended formulary nurse prescribers

Nurse independant prescribers (V200 only)

Extended/supplementary nurse prescribers

Nurse independant/supplementary prescribers (V300)

Scotland Nurse Prescribing

Northern Ireland Nurse Prescribing

Setting up Nurse prescribing for Independent/Supplementary Nurse Prescribers

Nurse Formularies

Nurse Prescribing from Therapy Add

Prescription and Signer Selection

Nurse Private Prescriptions and Non-FP10 and CD Drugs