# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005, Paragraph 6: Urgent supply without a prescription


Where, in a case of urgency, a prescriber personally known to a pharmacist requests him to provide a drug, the pharmacist may provide that drug before receiving a prescription form or repeatable prescription, provided that—
(a) that drug is not a Scheduled drug;
(b) that 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 pharmacist 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/2005/641/schedule/1/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-6
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