The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 5

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1987

Made

6th January 1987

Laid before Parliament

9th January

Coming into force

For the purposes of regulation 2(4)

1st August 1987

For all other purposes

1st February 1987

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 29, 41 and 42 of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1987 and shall come into force for the purposes of regulation 2(4) on 1st August 1987 and for all other purposes on 1st February 1987.

Amendment of regulations

2.—(1) Schedule 3A to the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974(2) (drugs and other substances not to be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) The following entries shall be omitted:—

• Fenoprofen Tablets 200mg

• Maalox Tablets

• Maalox TC Tablets

• Progesic Tablets 200 mg.

(3) The following entries shall be inserted at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order:—

• Actonorm Gel

• Angiers Junior Paracetamol Tablets

• Catarrh—Ex Tablets

• Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide Solution 3.75 mg/5 ml

• Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide Solution 7.5 mg/5 ml

• Haliborange Tablets

• Hot Blackcurrant Cold Remedy (Beechams)

• Hot Lemon Cold Remedy (Beechams)

• Librofem Tablets

• Mentholatum Nasal Inhaler

• Night Nurse Capsules

• Panacron Nasal Spray

• Paxidal Tablets

• Resolve Granules

• Robitussin Cough Soother

• Robitussin Cough Soother Junior Formula

• Robitussin Plus Liquid

• Seclodin Capsules

• Seven Seas Malt and Cod Liver Oil

• Simeco Suspension

• Simeco Tablets.

(4)  The following entry shall be inserted at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order:—

• Normax Capsules.

Signal by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton

Minister of State,

Department of Health and Social Security

6th January 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 (“the 1974 Regulations”), which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Schedule 3A to the 1974 Regulations contains a list of drugs and other substances for which a doctor may not issue a prescription for supply under pharmaceutical services and which may not be dispensed under those services. These Regulations add some drugs to, and delete others from, that list.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 29 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), section 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42 and by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; section 41 was amended by the 1980 Act, section 20(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 53 and Schedule 7; section 42 was amended by the 1980 Act, section 21(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 54; sections 29, 41 and 42 were each modified by S.I. 1985/39.

(2)

S.I. 1974/160; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/290 and 1712.