Home Department written question – answered at on 18 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 14 September 2011, Official Report, column 1180, on prescriptions, when she expects to lay before the House the statutory instrument relating to the prescribing powers of non-medical prescribers.
This Government are committed to enabling the NHS to deliver services more flexibly and efficiently. The necessary work is currently being finalised for the consideration of the Minister for Crime Prevention and Antisocial Behaviour Reduction, my noble Friend, Lord Henley, with a view to laying the statutory instrument by the end of October 2011. The statutory instrument will incorporate other amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (as amended) to facilitate the non-medical prescribing and mixing of medicines in palliative care and in other areas of clinical practice as they relate to controlled drugs.
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