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Extending Independent Nurse Prescribing within NHSScotland
DISPENSING OF PRESCRIBED ITEMS
Dispensing doctors in primary care
Where a GP practice is a dispensing practice, nurse and midwife prescriptions can be dispensed by the practice but only for the dispensing patients of that practice. Dispensing doctors cannot dispense prescriptions written by nurses for patients of other practices.
When submitting prescriptions to the PSD, dispensing practices should include them with their GP10 form count on their GP34 declaration and sort them as per existing instructions.
Reimbursement for nurse and midwife prescriptions can be claimed by dispensing doctors and payment for the prescriptions submitted will be made to the senior partner.
If any items dispensed are subsequently found not to be on Scottish Minister's Nurse Prescribers' list as set out in the Scottish Drug Tariff/Nurse Prescribers' Extended Formulary, they will not be reimbursed.
Nurses required to dispense in primary care
As stated within the UKCC Guideline for the Administration of Medicines (2000), a nurse may be required to dispense 'under exceptional circumstances'. Where this is likely to occur, the nurse's employer should be aware of this practice. In addition, paragraphs 89-92 must be adhered to.
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