In the UK, there is a legal and regulatory framework that permits online clinics employing GMC registered doctors to issue prescriptions remotely following an online medical assessment, with medicines dispensed and despatched (EU only) from a GPhC registered pharmacy.
A private prescription is like any other prescription for medication written by a doctor, except that private prescriptions are not funded by the NHS.
Private prescriptions are written by doctors in private practice, and by NHS doctors for medication which the NHS will not pay for.
The NHS does not fund travel medication, such as malaria tablets, and restricts quantities of some other medicines. The NHS will usually fund a supply of generic drugs only to treat male impotence. Read in full
The Dr Fox online clinic featured in a widely seen press article in 2010. The journalist, Maria Cheng of Associated Press, has done excellent research on online medicine.
The article entitled British patients click online to see doctor included the following: Read in full
