{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-55.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Prescribing: general",
  "text": "(1) The contractor must ensure that—\n(a) any prescription form or repeatable prescription issued or created by a prescriber;\n(b) any home oxygen order form issued by a health care professional; and\n(c) any listed prescription items voucher issued by a prescriber or any other person acting under the contract,\ncomplies as appropriate with the requirements in regulations 56, 57 and 59 to 63.\n(2) In regulations 56, 57 and 59 to 63, a reference to “drugs” includes contraceptive substances and a reference to “appliances” includes contraceptive appliances.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55(1)(c) substituted (21.12.2021) by The National Health Service (Charges, Primary Medical Services and Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Coronavirus) (Further Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1346), regs. 1(2)(a), 16(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 55(2) substituted (1.10.2019) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1137), regs. 1(2), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/regulation/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:48.208183+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}