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Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 2620

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (General Medical Services)Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994

Made

10th October 1994

Laid before Parliament

11th October 1994

Coming into force

1st November 1994

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st November 1994.

Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992

2.—(1) The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992(2) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In Schedule 10 (drugs and other substances not to be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)—

(a)the following entries shall be omitted—

(b)the following entries shall be inserted at such places in the alphabetical order of the entries in that Schedule as are appropriate—

(3) In Schedule 11 (drugs to be prescribed under pharmacuetical services only in certain circumstances)—

(a)the entry relating to Pregnavite Forte F Tablets shall be omitted; and

(b)after the entry relating to Cyanocobalamin, there shall be inserted in columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively the following—

“Niferex Elixir 30ml Paediatric Dropper BottleInfants born prematurelyProphylaxis and treatment of iron deficiency
Nizoral CreamAny patientTreatment of seborrhoeic dermatitis and pityriasis versicolor”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health

10th October 1994.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the Principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Regulation 2(2)(a) removes certain substances from the list in Schedule 10 to the Principal Regulations which lists drugs and other substances which may not be prescribed for supply in the course of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977, and regulation 2(2)(b) and includes certain other substances in that list. Regulation 2(3)(a) removes a substance in Schedule 11 to the Principal Regulations which lists substances which may be prescribed only in certain circumstances, and regulation 2(3)(b) includes certain other substances in that list.

(1)

1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 29 was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; and amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), section 56(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); and by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(3). Section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2).

(2)

S.I. 1992/635; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/2412 and 1993/2421.