In some rural places inside the United Kingdom, you can find dispensing doctors[24] that are allowed to each prescribe and dispense prescription-only medicines to their patients from within their practices. The law requires that the GP practice be situated inside a designated rural location and that there is certainly also a specified, minimum distance (at the moment 1.6 kilometres) amongst a patient's residence along with the nearest retail pharmacy.
Both pharmacists and prescribers are regulated professions in most jurisdictions. A prescription as a communications mechanism among them can also be regulated and is really a legal document.