Contents
- How to use this page
- Essential reading
- Mechanisms by professional group
- Paramedic
- Pharmacist
- Pharmacy technician
- Physician Associate
- Physiotherapist
- Practitioner psychologist
- Provisionally registered doctor (Foundation year 1)
- Radiographer (Diagnostic)
- Radiographer (Therapeutic)
- Speech and language therapist
- Update history
How to use this page
Staff groups are listed in alphabetical order and include information on what they can and cannot legally do, with respect to medicines supply and administration.
Essential reading
This page should be read in conjunction with Legal mechanisms to supply and administer medicines to individuals and Medicine administration by registered and non-registered staff.
Mechanisms by professional group
What they can do
Paramedics registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription only if annotated as an independent prescriber or as a supplementary prescriber working under a clinical management plan
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under relevant Schedule 17 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
What they can do
Pharmacists registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription only if annotated as an independent prescriber or as a supplementary prescriber working under a clinical management plan
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under relevant Schedule 17 exemptions (occupational health vaccinator)
- sell supply P and GSL medicines from registered pharmacy premises
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
For the group formerly known as pre-registration pharmacist see Foundation trainee pharmacist
What they can do
Pharmacy technicians registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (stages 2-4)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- work under any Schedule 17 exemptions
What they can do
Physician associates are currently not registered by the General Medical Council (GMC).
This group can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (stages 2-4)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- work under any Schedule 17 exemptions
What they can do
Physiotherapists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription only if annotated as an independent prescriber or as a supplementary prescriber working under a clinical management plan
- work under the Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under relevant Schedule 17 exemptions (occupational health vaccinator)
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
What they can do
Practitioner psychologists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (stages 2-4)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
What practitioner psychologists cannot do:
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- work under any Schedule 17 exemptions
What they can do
Doctors provisionally registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription written by another prescriber
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription under supervision
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
What they can do
Diagnostic radiographers registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription if annotated as a supplementary prescriber working under a clinical management plan
- work under the Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- work under any Schedule 17 exemptions
What they can do
Therapeutic radiographers registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription only if annotated as an independent prescriber or as a supplementary prescriber working under a clinical management plan
- work under the Patient Group Direction (PGD)
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- work under any Schedule 17 exemptions
What they can do
Speech and language therapists registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) can:
- work under a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) written by a prescriber
- work under a Patient Group Direction (PGD) (no controlled drugs from any schedule)
- work under the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines and national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine (all stages)
- work under Schedule 19 exemptions
- work under a protocol to administer P or GSL medicine
- work under a protocol to supply a GSL medicine
What they cannot do
This group cannot:
- act as clinical supervisor for the national protocols for coronavirus vaccines under Regulation 3A
- write a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) or prescription
- work under any Schedule 17 exemptions
Update history
- Article series format review
- Published