Department of Health and Social Care: Consultation - Extend medicines responsibilities for allied health professions (Deadline 28 October 2025)

Summary

This consultation seeks views on the following proposed changes affecting 4 professional groups:

• extending the list of medicines that paramedics can administer in emergency situations using exemptions within medicines legislation
• extending the list of controlled drugs that physiotherapist independent prescribers are legally able to prescribe
• enabling operating department practitioners to supply and administer medicines using patient group directions
• enabling diagnostic radiographer practitioners working at an enhanced, advanced or consultant practitioner level to become independent prescribers of medicines

These proposals aim to make it easier for patients to get the medicines they need when they need them, while maintaining patient safety. This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 28 October 2025.