SCHEDULE 5Terms of service of NHS appliance contractors

Urgent supply without a prescription

5.

(1)

This paragraph applies where, in a case of urgency, a prescriber requests an NHS appliance contractor (C) to provide an appliance.

(2)

C may provide the appliance requested before receiving a prescription form or repeatable prescription in respect of that appliance, provided that the prescriber undertakes to—

(a)

give C a non-electronic prescription form or non-electronic repeatable prescription in respect of the appliance within 72 hours of the request being made; or

(b)

transmit an electronic prescription to the Electronic Prescription Service within 72 hours of the request being made.