The National Health Service (Serious Shortage Protocols) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009

3.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation and application)—

(a) after the definition of “prescription form” insert—

““prescription only medicine” has the meaning given in regulation 5 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(1),”, and

(b) after the definition of “scheduled drug” insert—

““Scottish SSP” means a Scottish serious shortage protocol which is a written protocol in respect of any drug or appliance which is not a prescription only medicine that—

(a)

is issued by the Scottish Ministers in circumstances where Scotland or any part of Scotland is, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, experiencing or may experience a serious shortage of—

(i)

a specified drug or appliance, or

(ii)

drugs or appliances of a specified description,

(b)

provides for the supply by a pharmacist or dispensing doctor, where there is an order on a prescription form or serial prescription for—

(i)

the specified drug or appliance, or

(ii)

a drug or appliance of the specified description,

of a different drug or appliance or quantity or strength of a drug or appliance to that ordered by the prescriber or dentist, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the Scottish SSP, and

(c)

specifies the period for which, and the parts of Scotland (which may be all of Scotland) for which the Scottish SSP is to have effect,

“serious shortage protocol” means, in respect of a prescription only medicine, a serious shortage protocol for the purposes of regulation 226A of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(2),

“SSP” means a serious shortage protocol,”.

(1)

S.I. 2012/1916.

(2)

S.I. 2012/1916; regulation 226A was inserted by S.I. 2019/62.