Part I Organisation

Co-operation and assistance

F117AA Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.

(1)

This section applies to any arrangement under which a Health Board or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to them—

(a)

by a person on an ophthalmic list, or

(b)

by a person on a pharmaceutical list,

of goods or services that they reasonably require for the purposes of functions which they are exercising under Part I of this Act.

(2)

Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 17A (other than subsections (5) and (7)).

(3)

In this section—

“ health service body ” means a person or body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 17A;

“ ophthalmic list ” means

(a)

F2in relation to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of this Act, the first part of the list which is referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph;

(b)

F3 a list published in accordance with regulations made under section 39(a) of the M1 National Health Service Act 1977; or

(c)

F3 a list published in accordance with regulations made under article 62(2)(a) of the M2 Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and

“ pharmaceutical list ” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—

(a)

section 27(2) of this Act;

(b)

section 42(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977; or

(c)

Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.