Health Insurance (Approved Prescribing Practitioners) (Jersey) Order 2025

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A decision made 26 June 2025:

Decision Reference: MD-SOSEC-2025-422		Public
Subject: Health Insurance (Approved Prescribing Practitioners) (Jersey) Order 2025
Report Title: Health Insurance (Approved Prescribing Practitioners) (Jersey) Order 202-		Public
Decision(s): The Minister for Social Security decided to make the Health Insurance (Approved Prescribing Practitioners) (Jersey) Order 2025.
Reason for Decision(s): This Order will enable suitably qualified health care professionals to issue Pharmaceutical Benefit to residents insured under the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967. In 2018 two Orders were made under the Law to enable nurses and doctors (other than General Practitioners) to prescribe at cost to the Health Insurance Fund (HIF). This Order creates the route for Pharmacists and Paramedics to be similarly approved and consolidates the approval process into a single Order; the 2018 Orders are repealed. The Minister has decided to make these changes to support General Practices who wish to improve the services they offer and diversify their staffing. Expanding the roles which are able to prescribe at cost to the HIF will improve access to prescribed medicines and provide opportunity for enhanced medicines management services.
Resource Implications: The introduction of additional prescribers is not expected to have significant financial impact on the Health Insurance Fund. Some additional cost may be incurred by improving access to medicines, however equal opportunity is created to reduce cost by optimising prescribing in primary care with the introduction of prescribing pharmacists to the general practice work force.
Action Required: Legislative Drafting Office to be notified that the Order has been made. Signed and sealed Order to be forwarded to the Legislative Drafting Office, States Greffe, and the Greffier of the States is requested to notify the States Assembly that the Order has been made.
Signature:	Signed By: Minister for Social Security
Date Signed: 21 July 2025	Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed): 26 June 2025