The Human Medicines Regulations 2012

Requirements for prescriptions: EEA health professionals

218.—(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, a prescription only medicine is not sold or supplied in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner who is an EEA health professional unless the following conditions are met.

(2) Condition A is that it is an EEA prescription.

(3) Condition B is that the prescription is signed in ink by the EEA health professional giving it.

(4) Condition C is that the prescription is written in ink or otherwise so as to be indelible.

(5) Condition D is that the prescription contains the following particulars—

(a) the address of the EEA health professional giving it;

(b) the date on which it is signed by the EEA health professional;

(c) an indication of whether the EEA health professional is a doctor or dentist; and

(d) the name of the person for whose treatment it is given.

(6) Condition E is that the prescription—

(a) is not dispensed after the end of the period of six months beginning with the date on which it is signed by the EEA health professional; or

(b) in the case of a repeatable prescription—

(i) it is not dispensed for the first time after the end of that period, and

(ii) it is dispensed in accordance with the directions contained in the prescription.

(7) Condition F is that, in the case of a repeatable prescription that does not specify the number of times it may be dispensed—

(a) it is not dispensed on more than two occasions; or

(b) in the case of a prescription for an oral contraceptive, it is not dispensed on more than six occasions or after the end of the period of six months beginning with the date on which it is signed by the EEA health professional.

(8) This regulation is subject to regulation 219 (electronic prescriptions).