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Paragraph 44 Prescribing

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(1)

In the course of treating a patient to whom he is providing treatment under these terms of service, a doctor shall not order on a prescription form a drug or other substance specified in Schedule 10 to these Regulations but may otherwise prescribe such a drug or other substance for that patient in the course of that treatment.

(2)

In the course of treating such a patient a doctor shall not order on a prescription form a drug specified in an entry in column 1 of Schedule 11 to these Regulations unless—

(a)

that patient is a person of a description mentioned in column 2 of that entry;

(b)

that drug is prescribed for that patient only for the purpose specified in column 3 of that entry; and

(c)

the doctor endorses the face of the form with the reference “SLS”,

but may otherwise prescribe such a drug for that patient in the course of that treatment.