The National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

Regulation 5(2)

SCHEDULE 2 NOTESNOTES TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONSPRISMS, TINTS, PHOTOCHROMIC LENSES, SPECIAL GLASSES AND COMPLEX APPLIANCES

1.  The amounts in column 3 above and in paragraph 4(a) and (b) of these Notes shall be increased as follows:—

(a) by £3.50 in respect of each single vision lens containing a necessary prism;

(b) by £4.50 in respect of each other lens containing a necessary prism;

(c) by £1.75 in respect of each necessary single vision tinted lens;

(d) by £2.25 in respect of each necessary other tinted lens;

(e) by £30.00 in respect of glasses for a person the distance between the centres of whose pupils is 60 millimetres or less;

(f) where the voucher is issued by a Health Board (in connection with the hospital eye service), by £1.75 in respect of each necessary single vision photochromic lens, and by £2.25 in respect of each necessary other photochromic lens;

(g) where the voucher is issued by a Health Board (in connection with the hospital eye service), by £30.00 in respect of glasses the frame of which is certified by the Health Board as being required to be specially manufactured on account of the patient’s facial characteristics.

2.  The increases provided for by paragraph 1(e), (f) and (g) of these Notes do not apply in the case of a voucher relating to glasses if it is accepted in connection with the supply of contact lenses.

3.  In paragraph 1 of these Notes “necessary” in relation to a prism or a tinted or photochromic lens means that the prism, tint or photochromic quality has been prescribed on the basis of clinical need.

4.  The minimum complex appliance payment is—

(a) for a complex appliance with single vision lenses only, £3.00;

(b) for any other complex appliance, £17.00;

plus, in each case, the amount of any increase provided for by paragraph 1 of these Notes.