PRESCRIPTION FORMS FOR FREE MEDICINALS RULES

PRESCRIPTION FORMS FOR FREE MEDICINALS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 458.24

PRESCRIPTION FORMS FOR FREE MEDICINALS

RULES

23rd March, 2007

LEGAL NOTICE 67 of 2007, as amended by Legal Notice 232 of 2018.

(1) The title of these rules is the Prescription Forms for

Free Medicinals Rules.

(2) The purpose of these rules is to regulate every form to be used

by medical practitioners or dental surgeons to issue manual

prescriptions, computer generated prescriptions and eprescriptions, for

medicinal products or medical aids as provided for under the Social

Security Act, as well as medicinal products and medical aids granted

to a patient to be discharged from a hospital.

(1) The Superintendent of Public Health, shall by notice

published in the Gazette, establish the forms that shall be used by a

medical practitioner or dental surgeon when prescribing medicinal

products or medical aids granted under the Social Security Act.

Every form shall include the prescription requirements as provided

for under the Prescription and Dispensing Requirements Rules

Provided that, the provisions of the Dangerous Drugs

Ordinance, or the Drugs (Control) Regulations shall apply to a

medicinal product falling under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, or

under the Drugs (Control) Regulations.

(2) It shall be the duty of a medical practitioner or dental

surgeon to fill in all details mentioned in the relevant parts of the

forms as indicated by the Superintendent of Public Health.

(3) It shall be at the discretion of the medical practitioner or dental

surgeon to prescribe treatment for a maximum of six months for

medicinal products or medical aids not falling under the Dangerous

Drugs Ordinance, or the Drugs (Control) Regulations.

(1) Every medical practitioner or dental surgeon shall, in

prescribing medicinal products or medical aids as referred to in

these rules, use the forms as approved by the Superintendent of

Public Health and published in the Gazette.

(2) Any prescription to which these rules apply, shall be

deemed for all purposes of law, to be made out by the medical

practitioner or dental surgeon who signed it, whether manually or

electronically.

(3) Every medical practitioner or dental surgeon is obliged to

report in writing forthwith to the Superintendent of Public Health, any

case of theft or loss of any manual prescription or unauthorised access

to his electronic profile.

(1) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which these

rules apply, is to observe the rules issued by the Superintendent of

Public Health, and no medicinal product and medical aid shall be

PRESCRIPTION FORMS FOR FREE MEDICINALS

supplied more than the number of times indicated by the

prescribing medical practitioner or dental surgeon.

(2) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which rule 2(4)

applies, must observe the provisions of the Dangerous Drugs

Ordinance, or the Drugs (Control) Regulations.