PART 8Prescribing and dispensing
Nomination of dispensers for the purposes of electronic prescriptions58
1
A contractor authorised to use the Electronic Prescription Service for its patients must F1, if a patient, or where appropriate the patient’s authorised person, so requests, enter into the particulars relating to the patient which are held in the Patient Demographic Service managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre M1—
a
where the patient does not have a nominated dispenser, the dispenser chosen by the patient F2, or where appropriate the patient’s authorised person; and
b
where the patient does have a nominated dispenser—
i
a replacement dispenser, or
ii
a further dispenser,
chosen by the patient.
2
Paragraph (1)(b)(ii) does not apply if the number of the nominated dispensers would thereby exceed the maximum number permitted by the Electronic Prescription Service.
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4
A contractor must—
a
not seek to persuade a patient F4or a patient’s authorised person to nominate a dispenser recommended by the prescriber or the contractor; and
b
if asked by a patient F5or a patient’s authorised person to recommend a chemist whom the patient F6or the patient’s authorised person might nominate as the patient's dispenser, provide the patient F7or, as the case may be, the patient’s authorised person with the list given to the contractor by the Board of all chemists in the area who provide an Electronic Prescription Service.