# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020, Paragraph 6: Urgent supply without a prescription

Extent: E+W

(1) This paragraph applies where, in a case of urgency, a prescriber requests an NHS appliance contractor to provide an appliance.
(2) The NHS appliance contractor may provide the appliance requested before receiving a prescription form or repeatable prescription in respect of that appliance, provided that the prescriber undertakes to—
(a) give the NHS appliance contractor a non-electronic prescription form or non-electronic repeatable prescription in respect of the appliance within 72 hours of the request being made, or
(b) give the NHS appliance contractor an electronic prescription form complying with the Electronic Prescription Service within 72 hours of the request being made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/schedule/6/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-6/paragraph-6
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