The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (General Medical Services) and (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 2003

Amendment of regulation 2

2.  In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a) for the definition of “Charges Regulations” substitute—

““Charges Regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000;”;

(b) in the definition of “prescription form”, at the end insert “and does not include a repeatable prescription;”; and

(c) after the definition of “Remission of Charges Regulations”, insert the following definitions—

““repeat dispensing chemist” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 16B(1);

“repeat dispensing services” means pharmaceutical services which involve the provision of drugs or appliances by a chemist in accordance with a repeatable prescription;

“repeatable prescription” means a prescription contained in a form provided by a Primary Care Trust and issued by a doctor to enable a person to obtain pharmaceutical services or local pharmaceutical services, which is in the format specified in Part 1 of Schedule 6B(1) to the Medical Regulations, and which—

(a)

is generated by a computer but signed by a doctor; and

(b)

indicates that the drugs or appliances ordered on that form may be provided more than once, and specifies the number of occasions on which they may be provided;”.

(1)

Schedule 6B of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 is inserted by regulation 15 of these Regulations.