The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1382 (S.102)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1987

Made

3rd August 1987

Laid before Parliament

11th August 1987

Coming into force

1st September 1987

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 19, 27 and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978((1)), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st September 1987.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974((2)).

Amendments to the principal Regulations

2.  In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (terms of service for doctors) in paragraph 16A(2)(b)((3)) for the words “treatment of the condition” there shall be substituted the word “purpose”.

3.  In Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations (drugs and other substances not to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)((4)) the following entries shall be deleted:–

• Dynese Plus Aqueous Suspension

• Haymine Tablets

• Kolanticon Gel

• Polycrol Forte Tablets

• Polycrol Gel

• Polycrol Tablets

• Pregnavite Forte F Tablets.

4.  In Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations each of the following entries shall be inserted at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order:–

• Fiberform

• Octovit Tablets.

5.  For Schedule 2B to the principal Regulations (drugs to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances)((5)) there shall be substituted the Schedule 2B set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocation

6.  Regulation 3 of the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 5) Regulations 1985((6)) is hereby revoked.

Michael B. Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

New St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd August 1987

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 2B TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

Regulation 2(1)

“SCHEDULE 2B DRUGS TO BE SUPPLIED BY GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS OR PRESCRIBED FOR SUPPLY UNDER PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES ONLY IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES

1	2	3
Drug	Patient	Purpose
Acetylcysteine Granules	Any patient	Treatment of abdominal complications associated with cystic fibrosis
Carbocisteine	A patient under the age of 18 who has undergone a tracheostomy	Treatment of any condition which, through damage or disease, affects the airways and has required a tracheostomy
Clobazam	Any patient	Treatment of epilepsy
Pregnavite Forte F Tablets	A woman who has previously given birth to a child (whether or not born alive) with a defect of the neural tube or aborted a foetus with such a defect	Reduction of the risk of spina bifida or anencephaly in a child which may be born to the patient”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations lists drugs and other substances which cannot be supplied by doctors, or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services. Regulations 3 and 4 delete some drugs from, and add others to, that list.

Schedule 2B to the principal Regulations lists drugs which may be supplied by doctors or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances. Regulation 5 substitutes a revised Schedule 2B incorporating an additional entry. Regulation 2 makes a consequential amendment in Schedule 1 and regulation 6 revokes a spent provision.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), section 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, and by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a); section 27 was amended by the 1980 Act, section 20(2), and by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66), section 3(3); for definition of “regulations” see section 108(1).

(2)

S.I. 1974/506; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/296, 534, 804 and 1713, 1986/303, 925, 1507 and 2310.

(3)

Paragraph 16A was inserted by S.I. 1985/296.

(4)

Schedule 2A was inserted by S.I. 1985/296; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/534, 804 and 1713 and 1986/303, 925, 1507 and 2310.

(5)

Schedule 2B was inserted by S.I. 1985/296 and substituted by S.I. 1985/1713.

(6)

S.I. 1985/1713.