Enabling the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill to Allow for the Development of Collaborative Prescribing

13 April 2007

This bill Introduces a third class of prescriptive authority whereby nurses working in collaboration with doctors could prescribe from a specialty range of medications.

NZNO recommendation is that a third level of prescriber class is not introduced, and instead recommends moving NPs to authorised prescriber category and use designated prescriber class for these nurses.

NZNO Submission on Enabling the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill to Allow for the Development of Collaborative Prescribing (PDF)