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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

• Get a prescription prepayment certificate

  You can buy prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) from the NHS which…

• If you’ve been prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

  You can get an HRT prescription prepayment certificate (HRT PPC) from the…

Pharmacy (P), prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.

• Updated: 5 November 2025

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...

• Updated: 15 April 2021

Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.

• Updated: 3 November 2022

Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.

• Updated: 31 December 2025

• Updated: 22 March 2016

Guidance for pharmacists on prescriptions issued in EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

• Updated: 3 February 2021

Consumer advice and details of how to report problems with e-cigarettes with guidance on how to place an e-cigarette on the market in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including the notification scheme.

• Updated: 16 August 2024

How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines

• Updated: 11 April 2025

An annual report including information on prescription items dispensed and net ingredient cost.

• Updated: 27 October 2016