Part I The National Health Service: England and Wales

Local management

F14A Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.

F2(1)

This section applies to any arrangement under which F3a Strategic Health Authority,F4a Primary Care Trust, 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—

  • F5“general ophthalmic services contract” and “contractor” under such a contract have the meanings given by section 28WA of the principal Act;

  • “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—

    1. (a)

      section F639(1)(a) of the principal Act;

    2. (b)

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

    3. (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—

    1. (a)

      section 42(2)(a) of the principal Act;

    2. (b)

      section 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or

    3. (c)

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

F7(4)

In subsection (3), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “ophthalmic list” the reference to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is a reference to the first part of the list (referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph) which is published in accordance with regulations under that paragraph.