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6B.—(1) A provider of NHS services who, otherwise than under regulations 3 to 6A, supplies drugs or appliances to a patient for the purposes of treatment must, subject to paragraphs (3) to (8), make and recover from the patient—
(a)in respect of an item of elastic hosiery a charge of [F2£8.05], that is to say a charge of [F3£16.10] per pair;
(b)in respect of an appliance specified in column (1) of Schedule 1, the charge specified in relation to it in column (2) of that Schedule;
(c)in respect of tights, a charge of [F4£16.10]; and
(d)in respect of the supply of each other appliance and each quantity of a drug, a charge of [F5£8.05].
(2) Where a charge is paid under paragraph (1), the person making the payment must on doing so sign a declaration in writing that the relevant charge has been paid.
(3) No charge is to be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is exempt—
(a)under section 173(1) of the 2006 Act;
(b)under regulation 7(2); or
(c)by reason of being entitled to remission under regulation 5 of the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations,
and who, in the cases described in section 173(1)(c) of the 2006 Act and sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), completes a declaration of entitlement to such exemption or remission and provides such evidence of entitlement as the provider of NHS services who supplies the drugs or appliances to that patient may reasonably require.
(4) No charge is to be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient where the drugs supplied to the patient are administered, or the appliances supplied to the patient are fitted, at the hospital or other establishment or facility from which the provider of NHS services provides such services.
(5) No charge is to be made and recovered under this regulation where the drug or appliance supplied is administered or applied to the patient personally by a person employed by, or contracted to provide services for, a provider of NHS services.
(6) No charge is to be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is accepted by the person supplying the drug as—
(a)suffering from tuberculosis, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of tuberculosis; or
(b)being subject to a community treatment order, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of a mental disorder.
(7) No charge is to be made and recovered under this regulation in respect of a supply which is—
(a)made—
(i)while a disease is, or
(ii)in anticipation of a disease being imminently,
pandemic and a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health; and
(b)in accordance with a protocol relating to that disease as provided for in regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease).
(8) A partially remitted charge must be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is entitled to partial remission under regulation 7(4) if a declaration in writing is provided that the relevant part of the charge has been paid and a declaration of entitlement, and such other evidence of entitlement, to partial remission as may be required is provided.
(9) For the purposes of this regulation, where a drug ordered on a single written direction is supplied by instalments, the charge of [F6£8.05] payable for that drug is payable upon the supply of the first instalment.
(10) A provider of NHS services which makes and recovers a charge under this regulation must, if so required by the patient, give the patient a receipt for the amount received on the form approved by the Secretary of State and provided for the purpose, which form is to contain forms of declaration in support of an application for repayment and information as to whom an application for repayment is to be made.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 6B inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances), (Dental Charges) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/475), regs. 1(2), 11
F2Sum in reg. 6B(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2014) by The National Health Service (Charges, Payments and Remission of Charges) (Uprating, Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/545), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(g)
F3Sum in reg. 6B(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2014) by The National Health Service (Charges, Payments and Remission of Charges) (Uprating, Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/545), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(f)
F4Sum in reg. 6B(1)(c) substituted (1.4.2014) by The National Health Service (Charges, Payments and Remission of Charges) (Uprating, Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/545), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(f)
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