Amendment of regulation 2 of the PLPS Regulations
2. In regulation 2(1) of the PLPS Regulations(1) (interpretation)—
(a)at the appropriate places insert—
““financial year” means the 12 months ending with 31st March;”;
““NHS Digital directory of services” means the directory of services, maintained by the Information Centre, which is accessed by NHS urgent and emergency care services if a patient is in need of urgent assistance from a health care professional or urgent access to health care advice;”; and
““NHSmail” means the secure e-mail service of that name for the sharing of patient identifiable and patient sensitive information, for which the Information Centre is responsible;”; and
(b)at the appropriate place insert—
““PTP” means a pandemic treatment protocol, which is a protocol—
relating to the supply of a prescription only medicine to be used for the prevention of or as a treatment for a disease that is, or in anticipation of it being imminently, pandemic; and
approved in accordance with regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(2) (exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease);”.
Regulation 2 has been amended by S.I. 2015/137, 570, 1862 and 1879, 2016/696 and 1077, 2018/1114, 2019/593, 990 and 1094; and 2020/351.
S.I. 2012/1916; regulation 247 has been amended by S.I. 2013/235 and 2020/1125.