Part I The National Health Service: England and Wales

Local management

F14A 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—

(a)

section 39(a) of the principal Act;

(b)

section 26(2)(a) of the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or

(c)

Article 62(2)(a) of the M2Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and

“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.