Blacklisted (medicine)

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This article is about Blacklisted Medicines in the United Kingdom National Health Service. For other uses, see Blacklisted (disambiguation).

In the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, the Blacklist is a list published in the Drug Tariff denoting medicines and/or brand names or medicines that cannot be prescribed on NHS prescriptions. If such a prescription is dispensed then the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) 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 can be dispensed for a prescription for paracetamol suspension, but it is generally cheaper to dispense the generic form, and it is at the pharmacy's discretion to do otherwise.