HC Deb 30 January 1996 vol 270 c721W
Ms Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on nurse prescribing. [12628]

Mr. Malone

Preliminary findings show that the existing nurse prescribing pilot scheme is improving patient health care. Plans are being developed to test the scheme on a wider basis.

Ms Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the effect nurse prescribing has on quality of care for patients. [12629]

Mr. Malone

My Department has commissioned Professor K. Luker, department of nursing, at the university of Liverpool, to carry out a detailed evaluation into the nurse prescribing pilot project, currently under way at eight sites.