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Paragraph 45 Prescribing

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(1)

Where a doctor—

(a)

is responsible under these terms of service for the treatment of 10 or more persons in a school or other institution in which at least 20 persons normally reside; and

(b)

orders, for any two or more of those persons for whose treatment he is responsible, drugs or appliances to which this paragraph applies,

he may use a single prescription form for the purpose.

(2)

Where a doctor uses a single prescription form for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), he shall (instead of entering on the form the names of the persons for whom the drugs or appliances are ordered) enter on the form—

(a)

the name of the institution in which those persons reside; and

(b)

the number of persons residing there for whose treatment he is responsible.

(3)

This paragraph applies to any drug or appliance which can be supplied as part of pharmaceutical services and which—

(a)

in the case of a drug, is not a product of a description or class which is for the time being specified in an order made under section 58(1) of the Medicines Act 1968f1; or

(b)

in the case of an appliance, does not contain such a product.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1968 c. 67. See S.I. 1983/1212 as amended by S.I. 1984/756, 1986/586, 1987/674, 1987/1250, 1988/2017 and 1989/1852.