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These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the making and recovery of charges for drugs and appliances supplied by doctors and chemists providing pharmaceutical services, and by health authorities to out-patients.
Regulation 2(2) amends regulation 5 of the principal Regulations to provide for the making and recovery of charges for drugs and appliances supplied by NHS trusts, and amendments are also made in regulations 2, 6 and 9 of the principal Regulations to extend the provisions relating to exemption from, and the repayment of, such charges to cases where drugs and appliances have been supplied by NHS trusts (regulation 2(1), (3) and (4)).
Amendments made to the principal Regulations by regulation 2(5), and the Schedule, increase the charge for items on prescription or supplied to out-patients, and the monthly charge in respect of an oxygen concentrator supplied by a chemist, from £3.05 to £3.40. The charge for elastic stockings is increased from £3.05 to £3.40 each (from £6.10 to £6.80 per pair) and for tights from £6.10 to £6.80. The charges for partial human hair wigs and modacrylic wigs are increased from £67.00 to £74.50 and from £26.00 to £29.00 respectively. The charge for full human hair wigs are increased from £97.00 to £108.00. The charge for fabric supports is increased from £17.00 to £19.00 and the charge for surgical brassieres is increased from £13.00 to £14.50. The sums prescribed for the grant of pre-payment certificates of exemption from charges are increased from £15.80 to £17.60 for a four month certificate and from £43.50 to £48.50 for a twelve month certificate.
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