The National Health Service (Charges and Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Amendment of regulation 2 of the PLPS Regulations

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

(a) at the appropriate places insert—

““financial year” means the 12 months ending with 31st March;”;

““NHS Digital directory of services” means the directory of services, maintained by the Information Centre, which is accessed by NHS urgent and emergency care services if a patient is in need of urgent assistance from a health care professional or urgent access to health care advice;”; and

““NHSmail” means the secure e-mail service of that name for the sharing of patient identifiable and patient sensitive information, for which the Information Centre is responsible;”; and

(b) at the appropriate place insert—

““PTP” means a pandemic treatment protocol, which is a protocol—

(a)

relating to the supply of a prescription only medicine to be used for the prevention of or as a treatment for a disease that is, or in anticipation of it being imminently, pandemic; and

(b)

approved in accordance with regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(2) (exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease);”.

(1)

Regulation 2 has been amended by S.I. 2015/137, 570, 1862 and 1879, 2016/696 and 1077, 2018/1114, 2019/593, 990 and 1094; and 2020/351.

(2)

S.I. 2012/1916; regulation 247 has been amended by S.I. 2013/235 and 2020/1125.