It’s a regulatory issue - we are allowing EU prescriptions to be filled in the U.K., despite EU practitioners not having to work within U.K. regulation.
Am a bit surprised Brexit hasn’t put paid to it tbh, but I’d hazard a guess it might not be too difficult to close this loophole now we are out of the EU. I don’t know, IANAL.
There will always be ways around things though - plenty of women in genuine need import B12 injections or thyroid medications into the U.K. from abroad as our healthcare system tends to let them down. (Diagnosis: woman, get on with it). There are hundreds of medications that are restricted by medical prescription in the U.K., that in other countries you can just walk into a pharmacy and buy over the counter no questions asked. There will always be a way around - so regulation alone can’t be relied upon to safeguard vulnerable young people.
Interesting that the article mentioned that H Webberly faces a hearing with the GMC in July.