# The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006, Paragraph 4: Urgent supply without a prescription


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/552/schedule/2/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-local-pharmaceutical-services-etc-regulations-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-4
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