§ Miss WiddecombeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the reports he has commissioned on the issue of nurses being able to prescribe drugs; on what date such reports were received by ministers; and when he expects to publish them. [59837]
§ Mr. MilburnThe report of the Advisory Group on Nurse Prescribing was published in December 1989 and recommended the introduction of prescribing rights to certain groups of nurses. Following the passage of the Medicinal Products: Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992, the recommendations were piloted between 1994 and 1998. An evaluation of the original pilot sites was commissioned from the Universities of Liverpool and York and this was published in January 1997.