A PRIVATE CONTROLLED DRUG PRESCRIBER CODE is allocated by the NHS Prescription Services to private prescribers who prescribe schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs that are intended to be dispensed by registered pharmacies.

Note: A registered pharmacy means premises for the time being entered in the register required to be kept under the Medicines Act 1968 by the Registrar of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

For information on Controlled Drugs, see the NHS Business Services Authority Prescription Pricing Division website.

Private Controlled Drug Prescribers fall into one of the following types:

Private General Practitioners
Private Nurses
Private Pharmacists
Private Optometrists
Private Physiotherapists
Private Radiographers
Private Podiatrists

Each Private Controlled Drug Prescriber is linked to one Primary Care Trust. This is the responsible Primary Care Trust which will not necessarily be the geographic Primary Care Trust.

Private Controlled Drug Prescriber Code format

Practitioner Code Type	Character Position								Allocated By	Allocated To	Known As	Notes
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
PRIVATE CONTROLLED DRUG PRESCRIBER CODE	Q	0-9	0-9	0-9	0-9	0-9	0-9	0-9	NHS Prescription Services	Private Prescribers of Controlled Drugs in England and Wales	PCDP	Last character is a check digit

 

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
formerly	PRIVATE CONTROLLED DRUG PRESCRIBER
plural	PRIVATE CONTROLLED DRUG PRESCRIBER CODES