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Extending Independent Nurse Prescribing within NHSScotland

HOW TO USE THE GUIDE

This guide has been prepared for:

  • Acute Trusts

  • Primary Care Trusts

  • Personal Medical Services Pilots

  • LHCCs

  • General Practitioners

  • NHS Boards

  • Higher Educational Institutions providing nurse education

Other groups who will be interested in the guide, and who have therefore been sent a copy, include:

  • Trust Nurse Prescribing Leads

  • Existing Nurse Prescribers

  • Community Pharmacists

  • Community Services Pharmacists employed by, or contracted to, NHS Trusts

  • Patient Groups

It will be for Primary Care and Acute Trusts, and NHS Boards, to decide, in light of local priorities and in consultation with local health professionals, which nurses in their area should undertake the preparation for prescribing from the extended formulary between 2002 and 2004. This guide has been prepared to assist them.

All or part of the guide may be reproduced at local level for the information of individual nurses or other interested parties, as required.

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