Practice Guidance for Radiographer Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribers (Second Edition)

This practice guidance provides information which should underpin the decision-making and actions of radiographers who are annotated with their regulator the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), either as radiographer independent and/or supplementary prescribers.

Please note an amendment to Page 22 section 13.4 on the advice of colleagues at MHRA:

Where prescriptions are generated electronically and will be dispensed by community pharmacy, the electronic prescribing software must enable the prescriptions you generate to show your individual name and prescriber number on the prescription. You must not prescribe using another professional’s prescriber name and number on any electronic software.

Where prescriptions are generated electronically and will be dispensed within the organisation (for example a hospital pharmacy) or the prescription is generated for administration rather than supply, there is no requirement to include your prescriber number.  Organisations must, however, have a robust system to check that you are a valid prescriber.

This guidance should be read in conjunction with Improving Patients’ Access to Medicines: A Guide to Implementing Diagnostic Radiographer and Therapeutic Radiographer Prescribing within the NHS in the UK (Second Edition). 

The SoR would like to express its gratitude for Dianne Hogg's significant leadership and work on updating this document. Her efforts have been instrumental in ensuring that these documents are up-to-date and accurately interpret legislation. We also wish to recognise the significant contributions of many others who have supported the work to achieve legislative change and to ensure that this guidance document is relevant and useful. Their contribution is acknowledged at the end of this document.