Are doctors allowed to prescribe for themselves

[Iftheclouds]

Or not

Is there a lot put in place to make sure you dont just pretend a patient needed something for themselves and then picking it up?

From that list posted it seems there is a quite recent case of a dr having prescribed for himself or used a different name to get drugs. Does 'erased' mean struck off?

No you cannot, Gmc guidance is clear that you should not prescribe for yourself or anyone you have a close relationship with, unless it is a real emergency.
As the UK has 24 hr medical cover.. There really is no situation where you need to prescribe for say your child.
Out of hours serviced are available via NHS 111.
However the Gmc would not refer a doctor to the medical practitioners tribunal service on a one of self prescribing issue... You'd get advice not to do it again.
Doctors who have a pattern of years of self prescribing or prescribing for relatives, or had been warned previously about it may get tougher sanctions.
To get referred to the tribunal who have the power to strike a doc from the register you'd have to have been doing something a lot worse, such as self prescribing and then selling opioids... Or prescribing in a patients name but getting the drugs yourself.. So being dishonest.

Yes erased is struck off

@Iftheclouds - I’m curious, why are you checking this?

The NHS seems a topic of interest this week. What’s that now, three threads: first querying what’s sackable within the NHS, then a suggestion of someone in a GP practice breaching GDPR and now followed with asking if GPs can prescribe for themselves.
Curiouser and curiouser 🤔

outside major cities it's not that common to handle private prescriptions at all

Really? We live in the middle of nowhere and DH has to get Vit D on private prescription as our health authority doesn't cover it on the NHS. I have a private dentist (not by choice!) and he doesn't write NHS prescriptions. So I would have thought they weren't that unusual.

Vit D is very very cheap. You can buy masses of it on Amazon, even the high dose stuff.

No need for a private prescription.

@PurpleHoodie

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Apt name for this question: Was is for MAP?

No, it was for the pill. She is a gynaecologist and got into real trouble over it at the time!

Yes you can, but it is frowned upon ethically.

You can legally but it is very unwise, not recommended and likely to get you in trouble with the GMC or at least with your employer. There is no way I would risk it myself.

I think people did used to do it more years ago but it's been t

I'm a nurse prescriber; technically we can however it would be frowned upon and you would have to have strong justifications as to why you had done so.