District Nurse / Health Visitor - Independent Nurse Prescriber (limited)

This category of nurses in Wales represent District Nurse and Health Visitors enabling prescribing independently from a limited formulary known as the Nurse Prescribers Formulary (in Wales District Nurses and Health Visitors).

This became known as ‘District Nurse / Health Visitor prescribing’ or ‘First Phase nurse prescribing’. This category of nurse prescriber continues to prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for Community Practitioners (in Wales District Nurses and Health Visitors) (this consists of mainly dressings, creams and ‘P’ and limited ‘POM’ medicines).