Part I The National Health Service: England and Wales
Local management
4AF1 Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.
1
This section applies to any arrangement under which a Health Authority 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 the principal Act.
2
Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 4 (other than subsections (4) and (6)).
3
In this section—
“health service body” means a body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 4;
“ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
“pharmaceutical list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
- a
section 42(2)(a) of the principal Act;
- b
section 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or
- c
Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.
- a