Urgent supply without a prescription
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6. 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.