Medicines in radiography prescription, supply and administration

What is the current position for prescribing, supplying and administering medicines in radiography What direction will this take in the future These questions are answered below. 

Please note that the comments in this section of the chapter only relate to practice within the NHS private healthcare is not considered here. 

The development of non-medical prescribing, from recognition of need to widespread availability, took several years. In Baroness Julia Cumberlege s report. Neighbourhood Nursing (Department of Health and Social Security, 1986), she noted that patient care was often complicated by the nurse s inability, following a full assessment, to prescribe the evidence-based treatment for the GP to follow-up. 

A working party headed by Dr June Crown produced a report (Department of Health, 

Arising from the two Crown reports, there are currently four ways in which non-doctors/ non-dentists can prescribe/supply/administer medicines (there are exemptions not covered here). 

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