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The National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) Regulations 1997
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These Regulations make provision for the calculation of the basic price of drugs, medicines and listed appliances for the purpose of enabling Health Authorities to compare the actual costs with the indicative amounts for doctors’ practices which they are required to specify under section 18 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. An indicative amount is an amount of money representing the basic price of drugs, medicines and listed appliances which a Health Authority considers it reasonable to expect will be supplied in a financial year pursuant to orders given by or on behalf of a medical practice.
Regulation 2 provides a new way of calculating the basic price of drugs, medicines and listed appliances.
Regulation 3 provides that section 18 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 does not apply to doctors’ practices where the majority of patients of the practice reside in the area of a Health Board.
The Drug Tariff referred to in the Regulations is sent free of charge to all persons on the medical and pharmaceutical lists of Health Authorities and can be obtained from the Stationery Office.
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