Paragraph 8 Refusal to provide drugs or appliances orderedI1

the dispensing doctor reasonably believes that it is not a genuine order for the person named on the prescription form or the repeatable prescription (for example, because the dispensing doctor reasonably believes that it has been stolen or forged), or

it appears to the dispensing doctor that there is an error on the prescription form or on the repeatable prescription or its associated batch issue (including a clinical error made by the prescriber), or that, in the circumstances, providing the drugs or appliances would be contrary to the dispensing doctor’s clinical judgement.

the dispensing doctor or other persons on the premises are subjected to or threatened with violence by the person presenting the prescription or repeatable prescription, or by any person accompanying that person, or

the person presenting the prescription form or repeatable prescription, or any other person accompanying that person, commits or threatens to commit a criminal offence.

the dispensing doctor has no record of that prescription,

it is not signed by a repeatable prescriber,

to do so would not be in accordance with any intervals specified in the prescription,

it would be the first time a drug or appliance had been provided pursuant to the prescription and the prescription was signed more than 6 months previously,

if the repeatable prescription was signed more than 1 year previously,

the expiry date on the repeatable prescription has passed, or

where the dispensing doctor has been informed by the repeatable prescriber that the prescription is no longer required.

that the patient to whom the prescription relates—

that the medication regimen of the patient to whom the prescription relates has not altered in a way that indicates the need or desirability of reviewing the patient’s treatment, and

that there have been no changes to the health of the patient to whom the prescription relates which indicate the need or desirability of reviewing the patient’s treatment.