Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st September 1987.

(2) In these Regulations-

(a)"the principal Regulations" means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974(2); and

(b)"the 1987 (No. 2) Regulations" means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987(3).

Amendment of Regulations

2.-(1) The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6) of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 29 (schemes for securing proper pharmaceutical services)-

(a)in paragraph (4), after "a scheme" there is inserted "prepared under paragraph (1)(a)";

(b)the paragraph (5) added by regulation 2(5)(b) of the 1987 (No. 2) Regulations is renumbered "(4A)".

(3) In Schedule 1 (terms of service for doctors), in paragraph 36A(2)(b), for "treatment of the condition" there is substituted "purpose".

(4) In Schedule 3A (drugs and other substances not to be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)-

(a)the following entries are omitted:-

• Dynese Plus Aqueous Suspension

• Haymine Tablets

• Kolanticon Gel

• Polycrol Forte Tablets

• Polycrol Gel

• Polycrol Tablets

• Pregnavite Forte F Tablets;

(b)the following entries are inserted at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order:-

• Fiberform

• Octovit Tablets.

(5) For Schedule 3B (drugs to be prescribed under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances) there is substituted the Schedule 3B set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(6) In Schedule 4C (provisions further to regulation 26-pharmaceutical lists)-

(a)in Part II (pharmacy practices sub-committee), in paragraph 6(2), after "sub-paragraph (1)(b)" there is inserted "or (c)"; and

(b)in Part IV (appeals), in paragraph 13(2)(c)(iii), for "paragraph (1)(d)" there is substituted "paragraph 1(1)(d)".

(7) In regulation 2(5)(a) of the 1987 (No. 2) Regulations, the words "each of" and "and paragraph (4)" are omitted.

Revocation

3. Regulation 3 of, and Schedule 3 to, the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment (No. 6) Regulations 1985(4) are revoked.

Regulation 2(5)

SCHEDULESCHEDULE 3B TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 3BDRUGS TO BE PRESCRIBED UNDER PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES ONLY IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 ("the 1974 Regulations") which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Schedule 3A to the 1974 Regulations contains a list of drugs and other substances for which a doctor may not issue a prescription for supply under pharmaceutical services and which may not be dispensed under those services. Regulation 2(4) of these Regulations removes some drugs from, and includes others in, that list.

Schedule 3B to the 1974 Regulations contains a list of drugs which may be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances. Regulation 2(5) of these Regulations substitutes a new list, the change of substance being the inclusion of an entry for Pregnavite Forte F Tablets. Regulation 2(3) makes a consequential amendment and regulation 3 makes a consequential revocation of spent provisions.

Schedule 4C to the 1974 Regulations makes provision for a pharmacy practices sub-committee of a Family Practitioner Committee. Regulation 2(6)(a) of these Regulations extends the provision as to deputies for members to those members of that sub-committee who are registered pharmaceutical chemists.

Regulation 2(2), (6)(b) and (7) corrects minor errors.