3. Underpinning Knowledge - Legislation and Professional Issues

3.3Professional and legal issues: prescription-only medicines

3.3.1 General prescription requirements3.3.2 Dental prescriptions3.3.3 Faxed prescriptions3.3.4 Forged prescriptions3.3.5 Prescriptions from the EEA or Switzerland3.3.6 Military prescriptions3.3.7 Labelling of dispensed medicinal products3.3.8 Administration3.3.9 Patient specific directions and administration, sale or supply in hospitals and other settings3.3.10 Exemptions: sale and supply without a prescription3.3.11 Pregnancy prevention programmes3.3.12 Biosimilar medicines3.3.13 Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)3.3.14 Prescriber types and prescribing restrictions3.3.15 Checking registration of healthcare professionals3.3.16 Prescribing and dispensing by the same person3.3.17 Dispensing self-prescribed prescriptions and prescriptions for close friends and family