The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2007

Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

4.  After sub-paragraph (3A) in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 insert–

(a) A pharmacist independent prescriber shall not supply any item ordered on a prescription form by that pharmacist independent prescriber unless the conditions specified in paragraph (b) are met.

(b) The conditions referred to in paragraph (a) are–

(i) the item has been ordered in accordance with the arrangements which a Health Board has made pursuant to Directions issued by the Scottish Ministers in respect of pharmacist independent prescribers; and

(ii) the pharmacist independent prescriber reasonably considers that either–

(a) exceptional circumstances exist whereby it is in the best interests of the patient to whom the item is to be supplied that the pharmacist independent prescriber who orders the item should supply it; or

(b) the patient to whom the item is to be supplied, or the patient’s representative, is otherwise unlikely to be able to obtain the item without suffering excessive inconvenience or delay.

(c) A pharmacist independent prescriber who supplies an item which he or she has ordered must endorse the prescription form for that item with the words “self-dispensed”.”.