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Patient Group Directions (PGDs) are medico-legal documents in the U.K. National Health Service that permit the supply of prescription-only medicines to groups of patients, without individual prescriptions.[1] The first digital version of an authorised PGD was created by the pharmacist Wojtek Michael Bereza.[2]
As defined by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012,[3]aPGD must include:
Only qualified, registered healthcare professionals can supply medicines under PGD, these include:[4]