Urgent supply without a prescriptionU.K.
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5.—(1) This paragraph applies where, in a case of urgency, a prescriber requests an NHS appliance contractor (C) to provide an appliance.
(2) C may provide the appliance requested before receiving a prescription form or repeatable prescription in respect of that appliance, provided that the prescriber undertakes to—
(a)give C a non-electronic prescription form or non-electronic repeatable prescription in respect of the appliance within 72 hours of the request being made; or
(b)transmit an electronic prescription to the Electronic Prescription Service within 72 hours of the request being made.