The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

Prescribing and dispensing

29.—(1) A doctor shall supply any drugs, not being a scheduled drug, or appliances for the immediate treatment of a patient if such treatment is necessary before a supply can be obtained otherwise, and he may supply any other drug, not being a scheduled drug, which he administers in person, or an appliance listed in the Drug Tariff or a pessary which is an appliance.

(2) A doctor, who is required by the Board to supply drugs and appliances under regulation 34 to a patient, in the course of treating that patient under these terms of service—

(a) shall, subject to paragraph 31, record on a prescription form completed in accordance with paragraph 30(2), an order for supply of any drugs or appliances which are needed for the treatment of that patient, but shall not be required to issue that form to that patient;

(b) shall supply those drugs and appliances for that patient under regulation 34 but—

(i) shall not supply under regulation 34 for that patient any scheduled drug except that, where he has ordered a drug which has an appropriate non-proprietary name either by that name or by its formula, he may supply a drug which has the same specification notwithstanding that it is a scheduled drug (but, in the case of a drug which combines more than one drug, only if the combination has an appropriate non-proprietary name);

(ii) shall supply under regulation 34 for that patient a drug specified in Schedule 11 only where the conditions in paragraph 31 are satisfied;

(c) may supply for that patient with his consent, in respect of that treatment but otherwise than under regulation 34, any scheduled drug.

(3) A doctor shall comply with any arrangements made by the Secretary of State, or made by the Board after consultation with the Area Medical Committee and the Area Pharmaceutical Committee and approved by the Secretary of State, under which he may obtain and have available any drugs or appliances which he is required or entitled to supply in terms of this paragraph.

(4) A drug supplied by a doctor unless administered in person shall be supplied in a suitable container.