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] a PGD must include: Only qualified, registered healthcare professionals can supply medicines under PGD, these include:[4]