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NHS Business Services Authority contact number for ordering prepaid prescriptions for 3 or 12 months at a cheaper rate than single prescriptions
You can buy prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) from the NHS which…
You can get an HRT prescription prepayment certificate (HRT PPC) from the…
Check if you can get free NHS prescriptions, dental treatment or eye tests - or help with other NHS costs
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Guidance for pharmacists on prescriptions issued in EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
When entering the UK, you need to prove your medicine is prescribed to you if it contains a controlled drug - find out what proof you need to get.
The main functions of the Authority were to to calculate and make payments for amounts due to pharmacists and appliance contractors, and calculate amounts due to general practitioners, for supplying drugs and appliances prescribed under the NHS. The Authority was...
Information and documents on Public Health England’s review of the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Everyone aged 60 and over will continue to receive free prescriptions, the government has confirmed today.
The process for listing PCTs in the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Authorisation Directions 2008 as amended has restarted.
Charges for NHS prescriptions, wigs and fabric supports will increase on 1 May 2024.
Report of the review of the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines.
It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) , where prescriptions can be transmitted electronically, introduces significant benefits for patients, prescribers and dispensers.
Advice for healthcare professionals on the reclassification of codeine linctus to a prescription-only medicine (POM), following a public consultation.
An investigation by the Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has led to charges being brought against five people from the Wolverhampton area for the illegal supply of prescription-only medicines and controlled drugs.
Kieron Banks (34) was sentenced today at the Nightingale Court in Wolverhampton for the illegal possession and intent to supply prescription-only medication valued at over £2m following investigations by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
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