Physiotherapists have had supplementary prescribing rights since 2005. Over recent years the Department of Health has been reviewing the frameworks available to health professionals to both supply-and-administer and prescribe medicines: see the DH publication for further information.
This has resulted in the DH undertaking a major project to seek to introduce independent prescribing rights for physiotherapists and podiatrists. The public consultation closed late in 2011.
The CSP believes that the introduction of independent prescribing rights for physiotherapists will benefit a large number of patients in that they will be able to access the medicines they require at the time they need them, and that trips to a doctor simply to obtain a prescription may be reduced.
In addition, it will allow physiotherapists to manage an even greater proportion of the care pathways for the conditions they manage, within their scope of practice and experience.
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