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Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
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The purpose of these regulations is to enable the continued recognition of most prescriptions written by registered medical practitioners, registered dentists and registered nurse prescribers, including midwife prescribers in the United Kingdom, for dispensing in Ireland, post-Brexit. This will allow citizens living in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK to continue to access prescription-only medicines when in Ireland.
Only medical prescriptions written by registered medical practitioners, registered dentists and registered nurse prescribers in the United Kingdom can continue to be recognised in Ireland after the end of the transition period. This is on the basis that practitioners in the UK equivalent to those in Ireland with prescriptive authority will continue to have their prescriptions recognised for dispensing in Ireland.
Online prescriptions from UK prescribers, or prescriptions written by UK-based prescribers for the purposes of enabling mail order supply, issued to people living in Ireland will not be legally valid after the end of the transition period.
These regulations will also enable a prescriber in Ireland to issue a prescription for fulfilment in the UK, provided that the prescription includes certain additional information about the patient, doctor and medicine prescribed. This is identical to the requirements that were in place prior to the end of the transition period. The UK have made similar arrangements, and this will allow Irish citizens to continue to access their prescription medicines in the UK.
