Nurse Prescribing Changes in DLM 260 (early 2008)

For regional differences, see:

England Nurse prescribing

Wales Nurse prescribing

Scotland Nurse prescribing

The following changes made to nurse prescribing include:

Northern Ireland HPSS have now issued cut sheet prescriptions for Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribers and Independent/Supplementary Prescribers.
In England and Northern Ireland, Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribers and Independent/Supplementary Prescribers can print repeatable and batch issues under their own names. For Wales Independent Prescribers can print repeatable and batch issues under their own names.
For England and Northern Ireland, Independent/Supplementary prescribers are able to issue private prescriptions in Vision.
In Wales, Independent Prescribers are now permitted to issue private prescriptions under their own name in Vision.
In Wales the IPC (private controlled drug code, format PNNNNNN, for example, P123456) must be added for Independent prescribers to be able to print Private Controlled Drugs into Control Panel - File Maintenance - Staff - [edit user] - Identifiers.
Independent/Supplementary prescribers in Northern Ireland are eligible to print private controlled drug prescriptions in Vision. This does not include Pharmacist Prescribers who are not permitted to prescribe any controlled drug.
If a private drug is selected and a Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber is selected as the authorising signatory, then the following warning is shown and the private controlled drugs is deselected. "Nurse and Nurse Independent/Supplementary prescribers are not eligible to print private, discontinued or non-NHS drugs or drugs for private patients."