Correspondence

Independent prescribing by paramedics and administration rights for therapeutic radiographers

Government response to the ACMD's advice on the prescribing of controlled drugs by paramedics and on the administration rights of morphine by injection for therapeutic radiographers.

This was published under the 2022 Truss Conservative government

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Government response to ACMD advice on independent prescribing by paramedics and administration rights for therapeutic radiographers

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This letter from the government is in response to two pieces of advice provided by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

ACMD advice on the prescribing of controlled drugs by paramedic independent prescribers

ACMD advice on the administration rights of morphine by injection for therapeutic radiographer independent prescribers

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Published 3 October 2022

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