2025-08-29 13:25:36
This month, the Department of Health and Social Care launched a consultation on:
- extending the list of medicines that paramedics can administer in emergency situations using exemptions within medicines legislation
- extending the list of controlled drugs that physiotherapist independent prescribers are legally able to prescribe
- enabling operating department practitioners to supply and administer medicines using patient group directions
- enabling diagnostic radiographer practitioners working at an enhanced, advanced or consultant practitioner level to become independent prescribers of medicines
The consultation paper can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/extend-medicines-responsibilities-for-allied-health-professions/proposals-to-extend-medicines-responsibilities-for-paramedics-physiotherapists-operating-department-practitioners-and-diagnostic-radiographers#operating-department-practitioners