Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

35.  For Articles 63A and 63B substitute—

“Additional pharmaceutical services

63A.— (1) The Department may make arrangements for the provision of additional pharmaceutical services.

(2) The arrangements—

(a) may be made on such terms as the Department thinks appropriate;

(b) may impose, on any person providing a service in accordance with the arrangements, such conditions as the Department thinks appropriate.

(3) But the arrangements must secure that any service to which they apply is provided only by a person whose name is included in a pharmaceutical list.

(4) Different arrangements may be made with respect to—

(a) different services;

(b) the provision of the same service by the same person but in different circumstances;

(c) the provision of the same service by different persons.

(5) The Department must provide details of any proposed arrangements(including the remuneration to be offered for the provision of services) to any person who asks for them.

(6) The Department must publish such details as it thinks appropriate of arrangements under this Article—

(a) in the Drug Tariff, or

(b) in such other manner as it thinks appropriate.

(7) In this Article—

“additional pharmaceutical services” means services of a kind that do not fall within Article 63;

“Drug Tariff” means the Drug Tariff published under regulation 9 of the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 or under any corresponding provision replacing, or otherwise derived from, that regulation;

“pharmaceutical list” means, subject to the arrangements made, a list—

(a)

published by the Department in accordance with regulations made under Article 63AA(2)(za); or

(b)

published by any body in accordance with regulations made under—

(i)

section 27(3)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,

(ii)

section 129(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 2006,

(iii)

section 83(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or

(iv)

any provision of the law of Scotland or England and Wales that re-enacts (with or without amendment) any of those sections.”.