Prescribing for allied health professionals to be expanded under government proposals

Allied health professionals, including physiotherapists, are to be given extended prescribing rights and further abilities to supply medicines under government proposals. Under the proposals, which were published in a consultation document on 5 August 2025, physiotherapist independent prescribers (IPs) may be able to prescribe further controlled drugs; diagnostic radiographers could become IPs; and paramedics could […]