Nurse Prescribing

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 February 1991.

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Photo of John Greenway John Greenway , Ryedale 12:00, 5 February 1991

Is my hon. Friend aware that many practice nurses would welcome a limited prescribing arrangement? With proper training and a sensible list of drugs, it should be possible for nurses to relieve their practitioners of regular prescribing, thus releasing them for other work. When that bright initiative is in place, will the nurses be encouraged to prescribe generically, as is done in hospitals?