These Regulations make changes to the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 which are consequential upon the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004 and upon the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2004

Regulation 24 extends the scheme which allows chemists to dispense in accordance with repeatable prescriptions, by extending it to those Primary Care Trust areas specified in the amendment.