Health Care (Registration) (Prescribed Qualifications) (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Order 2012

Health Care (Registration) (Prescribed Qualifications) (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Order 2012

Made                                                                   24th December 2012

Coming into force                                                31st December 2012

THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES, in pursuance of Articles 3 and 17 of the Health Care (Registration) (Jersey) Law 1995[1], orders as follows –

1        Article 1 amended

For Article 1 of the Health Care (Registration) (Prescribed Qualifications) (Jersey) Order 2003[2] there shall be substituted the following Article –

“1      Interpretation

In this Order –

‘Health Professions Order’ means the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 of the United Kingdom;

‘prescription only medicine’ has the same meaning as in the Medicines (Prescription Only) (Jersey) Order 1997[3].”.

2        Schedule amended

In the Schedule to the Health Care (Registration) (Prescribed Qualifications) (Jersey) Order 2003[4] –

(a)     after the entry numbered 5A there shall be inserted the following entry –

 

“5A1.

Qualification consisting of –

(a)  entry as a midwife in the register established and maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 of the United Kingdom;

(b)  notation on that register as a midwife independent prescriber or midwife supplementary prescriber; and

(c)  a reasonable degree of experience, and of continuing professional development, in prescribing prescription only medicines

Midwife prescribing practitioner”;

(b)     after the entry numbered 5B there shall be inserted the following entry –

 

“5B1.

Qualification consisting of –

(a)  entry as a registered nurse: first level in the register established and maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 of the United Kingdom;

(b)  notation on that register as a registered nurse: first level independent prescriber or registered nurse: first level supplementary prescriber; and

(c)  a reasonable degree of experience, and of continuing professional development, in prescribing prescription only medicines

Nurse prescribing practitioner”;

(c)     after the entry numbered 10A there shall be inserted the following entry –

 

“10A1.

Qualification consisting of –

(a)  entry as a specialist community public health nurse in the register established and maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 of the United Kingdom;

(b)  notation on that register as a specialist community public health nurse independent prescriber or specialist community public health nurse supplementary prescriber; and

(c)  a reasonable degree of experience, and of continuing professional development, in prescribing prescription only medicines

Specialist community public health nurse prescribing practitioner”;

(d)     for the entry numbered 10AC there shall be substituted the following entry –

 

“10AC.

Registration in the part of the register, established and maintained under article 5 of the Health Professions Order, relating to the social work profession in England

 

Social worker”.

3        Citation and commencement

(1)     This Order may be cited as the Health Care (Registration) (Prescribed Qualifications) (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Order 2012.

(2)     This Order shall come into force 7 days after it is made.

DEPUTY A.E. PRYKE OF TRINITY

Minister for Health and Social Services

 

 


 



[1]                                    chapter 20.300

[2]                                    chapter 20.300.50

[3]                                    chapter 20.625.95

[4]                                    chapter 20.300.50


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