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The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

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Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

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2.  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations(1) (drugs, medicines and other substances that may be ordered only in certain circumstances)—

(a)in column 1 of the table (drugs), in the entry relating to drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, omit—

(i)“(Caverject), (MUSE), (Viridal)”,

(ii)“(Uprima)”,

(iii)“(Erecnos)” (in both places where it appears),

(iv)“(Viagra)”,

(v)“(Cialis)”, and

(vi)“(Levitra)”;

(b)in column 2 of the table (patient)—

(i)at the beginning of the entry relating to drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, insert “(1) The following patients with erectile dysfunction–”, and

(ii)at the end of paragraph (f) of that entry, insert—

;

(2) Any patient; and

(c)in column 3 (purpose), opposite “(2) Any patient” in column 2, insert the words “Treatment of a condition, other than erectile dysfunction, in respect of which the drug ordered is considered an appropriate treatment”.

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