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

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

13. 7A. Exemptions for administration of smallpox vaccine

14. 7B. Exemption for administration by operators

15. 8. Exemptions for emergency sale or supply

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

17. 10. Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions

18. 11. Exemptions for certain persons

19. 12. Exemption for sale or supply in hospitals

20. 12A. Exemptions for the supply and administration of prescription only medicines by national health service bodies

21. 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

22. 12C. Exemption for persons conducting a retail pharmacy business who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction

23. 12D. Exemption for the supply and administration of prescription only medicines by independent hospitals, clinics and agencies

24. 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

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

26. 13A. Exemptions relating to prescriptions given by certain health professionals

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

28. 15. Prescriptions

29. 16. Revocations

30. Signature

31. 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 PARTICULARS TO BE INCLUDED IN A PATIENT GROUP DIRECTION

       2. PART II PERSONS ON WHOSE BEHALF A PATIENT GROUP DIRECTION MUST BE SIGNED

       3. PART IIA PERSONS BY WHOM OR ON WHOSE BEHALF A PATIENT GROUP DIRECTION USED IN THE PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE POLICE, THE PRISON SERVICES OR THE ARMED FORCES MUST BE SIGNED

       4. PART III CLASSES OF INDIVIDUAL BY WHOM PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES MAY BE SUPPLIED OR ADMINISTERED

32. Explanatory Note