NHS England's top paramedics gain right to prescribe medicines

Legal change means 700 will be able to carry out some functions usually done by doctors

Hundreds of the NHS’s most senior paramedics will soon be able to give drugs to sick patients thanks to a change in the law that NHS chiefs hope will take the pressure off overcrowded hospitals.

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