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Paragraph 4 Urgent supply without a prescription

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Where, in case of urgency, a prescriber personally known to a contractor requests it to provide a drug, a contractor may provide that drug (where it would otherwise be able to provide that drug in accordance with the LPS scheme) before receiving a prescription form or repeatable prescription, provided that—

(a)

the drug is not a Scheduled drug;

(b)

the drug is not a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, other than a drug which is for the time being specified in Schedule 4 or 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001; and

(c)

the prescriber undertakes to—

(i)

give the contractor a non-electronic prescription form or non-electronic repeatable prescription in respect of the drug within 72 hours, or

(ii)

transmit to the ETP service within 72 hours an electronic prescription.