The range of medicine available online is increasing every day. However what is to stop any medicine from being prescribed online. Medical ethics should prove the initial barrier however when this fails the regulator provides a secondary barrier. Due to this before any medicine is enabled to be accessed online a thorough risk-benefit matrix is required by regulators. Below is an excerpt of our Online Prescribing Formulary where we have listed the most common medicines prescribed online and the risks involved in prescribing them remotely.
