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The nurse prescribers formulary for community practitioners is for use by district nurses and specialist community public health nurses including health visitors who have received nurse prescriber training it provides a list of preparations approved by the secretary of state that can be prescribed for patients receiving nhs treatment on . Doi 101046 j1365 2702200300839x abstract background there is some variation in the prescribing patterns of district nurses health visitors and practice nurses and the limitations of the original nurse prescribers formulary npf have been highlighted some preconditions for good nurse prescribing practice have begun to be identified. The nurse prescribers formulary for community practitionersuntil 2005 called the nurse prescribers formulary for district nurses and health visitors now enables community practitioner nurse prescribers to prescribe from a formulary of appliances dressings and some medicines for patients in the community. Background since 1999 all health visitors and district nurses in the united kingdom uk have received additional education to permit their registration as independent prescribers from a limited list of medicinal products little research has investigated how more than 20 000 health visitor and district nurse prescribers have implemented their new role since the evaluation of the pilot sites. In the same year nurse prescribing for district nurses and health visitors was also introduced in scotland nurse independent prescribing 118 between 2003 and 2005 work continued to expand the nurse prescribers extended formulary npef and by 2005 there were 240 prescription only medicines poms along with all the pharmacy p and