The move follows a meeting of the Nursing Midwifery Council during whichcouncil members warned that allowing primary care nurses withoutspecialist qualifications to prescribe medicines for children could poserisks to safety.
However, a council spokeswoman said that since 85 per cent of primarycare nurses' consultations are with children it was unrealistic toprevent them from prescribing to the group.
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