Bulk prescribing E+W
57.—(1) A prescriber may use a single non-electronic prescription form where—
(a)a contractor is responsible under the contract for the treatment of 10 or more persons in a school or other institution in which at least 20 persons normally reside, and
(b)the prescriber orders, for any 2 or more of those persons for whose treatment the contractor is responsible, drugs, medicines or appliances to which this paragraph applies.
(2) Where a prescriber uses a single non-electronic prescription form for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), the prescriber must (instead of entering on the form the names of the persons for whom the drugs, medicines or appliances are ordered) enter on the form—
(a)the name of the school or other institution in which those persons reside, and
(b)the number of persons residing there for whose treatment the contractor is responsible.
(3) This paragraph applies to any drug, medicine or appliance which can be supplied as part of pharmaceutical services or local pharmaceutical services and which in the case of—
(a)a drug or medicine, is not a prescription only medicine, or
(b)an appliance, does not contain such a product.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 57 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(2)