The Reciprocal and Cross-Border Healthcare (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Substitution of regulation 9

8.  For regulation 9 substitute—

“The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Regulations 2004

9.— (1) The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Regulations 2004(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 2 (drugs, medicines and other substances that may be ordered only in certain circumstances), in the entry in column 2 of the table that corresponds to the entry in column 1 relating to drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction—

(a) for sub-paragraph (b) (including the “or” at the end) substitute—

“(b) a man who is a national of an EEA State who—

(i) immediately before IP completion day was entitled to treatment by virtue of Article 7(2) of Council Regulation 1612/68 as extended by the EEA Agreement or was entitled to treatment by virtue of any other enforceable EU right;

(ii) has erectile dysfunction and was on 14th September 1998 receiving a course of treatment under a national health insurance system of an EEA State for that condition with any of the drugs listed in sub-paragraph (a); and

(iii) immediately before IP completion day was receiving a course of treatment as part of the health service for the condition mentioned in paragraph (ii) of this sub-paragraph with any of the drugs listed in sub-paragraph (a); or”;

(b) for sub-paragraph (c) (including the “or” at the end) substitute—

“(c) a man who is not a national of an EEA State but who is the member of the family of such a national and who—

(i) immediately before IP completion day had an enforceable EU right to be treated no less favourably than the national in the provision of medical treatment;

(ii) has erectile dysfunction and was on 14th September 1998 receiving a course of treatment for that condition with any of the drugs listed in sub-paragraph (a); and

(iii) immediately before IP completion day was receiving a course of treatment as part of the health service for the condition mentioned in paragraph (ii) of this sub-paragraph with any of the drugs listed in sub-paragraph (a); or”.”.

(1)

S.I. 2004/629; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2011/1043, 2013/2194 and 2014/1625.