The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007

Amendment of regulation 2 of the GMS Contracts Regulations

2.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the GMS Contracts Regulations—

(a) in the definition of “batch issue”—

(i) for “Prescription Pricing Authority”, substitute “Prescription Pricing Division of the NHS Business Services Authority”, and

(ii) for “version 1 dated June 2004” substitute “version 2 dated August 2006(1)”;

(b) in the definition of “CCT”, omit “, including any such certificate awarded in pursuance of the competent authority functions of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board specified in article 20(3)(a) of that Order”;

(c) insert the following definitions after the definition of “health service body”—

““home oxygen order form” means a form provided by the Primary Care Trust and issued by a health care professional to authorise a person to supply home oxygen services to a patient requiring oxygen therapy at home;

“home oxygen services” means any of the following forms of oxygen therapy or supply—

(a)

ambulatory oxygen supply,

(b)

urgent supply,

(c)

hospital discharge supply,

(d)

long term oxygen therapy, and

(e)

short burst oxygen therapy;”; and

(d) in the definition of “repeatable prescription”—

(i) for “Prescription Pricing Authority”, substitute “Prescription Pricing Division of the NHS Business Services Authority”, and

(ii) for “version 1 dated June 2004” substitute “version 2 dated August 2006”.

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This document is available at http://www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/prescform_overspec.htm.