Blacklisted (medicine)

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The Blacklist is a list published in the Drug Tariff denoting medicines and/or brand names or medicines that can not be prescribed on NHS prescriptions in the UK. If such a prescription is dispensed then the PPA (prescription pricing authority) will refuse to refund the cost to the dispensing pharmacy.

Some brand named medicines on the blacklist can be dispensed for a prescription for same generic drug (if that medicine is not blacklisted itself). For example Calpol for paracetamol suspension, but it is generally cheaper to dispense the generic form, and it is at the pharmacy's discretion to do otherwise.