The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

3. 2. Appropriate practitioners

4. 3. Medicinal products on prescription only

5. 3A. Prescribing and administration by nurse independent prescribers

6. 3B. Prescribing and administration by supplementary prescribers

7. 3C. Exemptions from conditions in respect of the cases or circumstances in which a supplementary prescriber may administer a medicinal product

8. 4. Duration of special provisions in relation to new medicinal products

9. 5. Exempt medicinal products

10. 5A. Exemption for products consisting of or containing aloxiprin, aspirin or paracetamol

11. 5B. Exemption for products consisting of or containing pseudoephedrine salts or ephedrine base or salts

12. 6. Circumstances in which controlled drugs and medicinal products authorized by the European Community are not prescription only medicines

13. 7. Exemption for parenteral administration in an emergency to human beings of certain prescription only medicines

14. 7A. Exemptions for administration of smallpox vaccine

15. 7B. Exemption for administration by operators

16. 8. Exemptions for emergency sale or supply

17. 9. Exemption for non-parenteral administration to human beings

18. 10. Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions

19. 11. Exemptions for certain persons

20. 12. Exemption for sale or supply in hospitals

21. 12A. Exemptions for the supply and administration of prescription only medicines by national health service bodies

22. 12B. Exemption for health professionals who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction in order to assist doctors or dentists in providing national health services

23. 12C. Exemption for persons conducting a retail pharmacy business who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction

24. 12D. Exemption for the supply and administration of prescription only medicines by independent hospitals, clinics and agencies

25. 12E. Exemption for health professionals who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction in order to assist the provision of health care by or on behalf of the police, the prison services or the armed forces

26. 12F. Exemption for the supply of prescription only medicines in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease

27. 13. Exemption in cases involving another’s default

28. 13A. Exemptions relating to prescriptions given by certain health professionals

29. 14. Exemption in the case of a forged prescription

30. 15. Prescriptions

31. 16. Revocations

32. Signature

33. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       SUBSTANCES WHICH IF INCLUDED IN MEDICINAL PRODUCTS MAKE THOSE PRODUCTS PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTIONS ON THE SALE AND SUPPLY OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       SUBSTANCES WHICH MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM THE CLASS OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES AT HIGH DILUTION

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       DESCRIPTIONS AND CLASSES OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES IN RELATION TO WHICH community practitioner nurse prescribers ARE APPROPRIATE PRACTITIONERS

    4. SCHEDULE 3A

       CONTROLLED DRUGS WHICH MAY BE PRESCRIBED, ADMINISTERED OR DIRECTED FOR ADMINISTRATION BY NURSE INDEPENDENT PRESCRIBERS AND CONDITIONS FOR SUCH PRESCRIPTION OR ADMINISTRATION

    5. SCHEDULE 3B

       PARTICULARS FOR CLINICAL MANAGEMENT PLANS

    6. SCHEDULE 4

       SUBSTANCES NOT TO BE CONTAINED IN A PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINE SOLD OR SUPPLIED UNDER THE EXEMPTION CONFERRED BY ARTICLE 8(3)

    7. SCHEDULE 5

       EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN PERSONS FROM SECTION 58(2) OF THE ACT

       1. PART I EXEMPTION FROM RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OR SUPPLY

       2. PART II EXEMPTIONS FROM THE RESTRICTION ON SUPPLY

       3. PART III EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTION ON ADMINISTRATION Column 1

    8. SCHEDULE 6

       ORDERS REVOKED

    9. SCHEDULE 7

       1. PART I

       2. PART II

       3. PART IIA

       4. PART III

34. Explanatory Note