Nurse prescribing and dispensing in South Africa: gaps in the current legislative framework

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dc.contributor.authorCrowley, Talitha
dc.contributor.authorGray, Andy Lofts
dc.contributor.authorGeyer, Nelouise
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T08:07:28Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T08:07:28Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractNurse prescribing and dispensing are central to ensuring universal health access in South Africa. To describe the historical development of the legal enablements of nurse prescribing and dispensing in South Africa and highlight gaps in the current legislative framework We emphasise significant deficiencies in the current legislative landscape that pose challenges to these vital nursing practices and call for urgent revisions of the legislative framework, particularly the revision of Section 56 of the Nursing Act (33 of 2005) and its related regulations, to formalise authorisation of specialist nurse prescribers in public and private practice. This will also entail an application to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAPHRA) for the scheduling of substances by authorised nurse prescribers in the defined professional nurse and specialist nurse categories by the Minister of Health There is a necessity for prompt legislative revisions to address identified deficiencies
dc.identifier.citationCrowley, T., Gray, A.L. and Geyer, N., 2024. Nurse prescribing and dispensing in South Africa: Gaps in the current legislative framework. Health SA Gesondheid (Online), 29, pp.1-6.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2582
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/19930
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAOSIS (Pty) Ltd
dc.subjectdispensing
dc.subjectlegal framework
dc.subjectnurses
dc.subjectprescribing
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.titleNurse prescribing and dispensing in South Africa: gaps in the current legislative framework
dc.typeArticle

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