Legal requirements for the prescribing and administration of medicines.
On the 15th anniversary of the introduction of the Medicinal Products: Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992, Richard Griffith reflects on the development of nurse prescribing since the Acts implementation and outlines the current procedures by which district nurses may prescribe, supply or administer medicines to patients and the requirements that must be met in order to do so lawfully.
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School of Health Science, Swansea University. richard.griffith@swan.ac.uk
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