By Dispex
Dr Philip Koopowitz: “There is no indication about restriction of the colour of ink.
Indeed NHSBSA is not mandated to check that a signature is on the script and will
process unsigned scripts – unless they are CDs”.
The Huan Medicines Regulations 2012 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/regulation/217
Requirements for prescriptions: general
217.—(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, a prescription only medicine is not sold or
supplied in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner unless
the following conditions are met.
(2) Condition A is that the prescription is signed in ink by the appropriate practitioner giving it.
