The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Preliminary matters before providing ordered drugs or appliances

6.  Before providing drugs or listed appliances recorded on a prescription form in accordance with paragraph 4, or in the circumstances set out in paragraph 7—

(a) the dispensing doctor must ask any person who makes a declaration that the patient does not have to pay the charges specified in regulation 4(1) of the Charges Regulations (supply of drugs and appliances by doctors) by virtue of either—

(i) entitlement to an exemption under regulation 8(1) of the Charges Regulations (exemptions), or

(ii) entitlement to remission of charges under regulation 5 of the Remission of Charges Regulations (entitlement to full remission and payment),

to produce satisfactory evidence of such entitlement, unless the declaration is in respect of entitlement to exemption by virtue of regulation 8 of the Charges Regulations or in respect of remission by virtue of regulation 5(1)(e) or 5(2)(e) or (f) of the Remission of Charges Regulations, and at the time of the declaration the dispensing doctor already has such evidence available to them, and

(b) if no satisfactory evidence, as required by sub-paragraph (a) is produced to the dispensing doctor, the dispensing doctor must endorse the form on which the declaration is made to that effect.