Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Amendment of regulation 12 of the principal Regulations

8.  In regulation 12 of the principal Regulations (arrangements for provision of pharmaceutical services by doctors)—

(a) in paragraph (1) after the word “included” insert “, or a doctor falling within paragraph (1A),”;

(b) after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) A doctor falls within this paragraph if—

(a) he performs personal medical services under a pilot scheme to which the Board is a party;

(b) his name was included in the medical list of the Board immediately before he started to perform personal medical services (whether under that pilot scheme or under another pilot scheme to which the Board was also a party);

(c) the pilot scheme provides for him to have a doctor’s list, and the patient is included in that list; and

(d) by virtue of the pilot scheme, any services of the kind referred to in this regulation provided to persons who receive personal medical services under the scheme are to be carried out under these Regulations as pharmaceutical services rather than as dispensing services under the pilot scheme.”.