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Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 2421

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1993

Made

4th October 1993

Laid before Parliament

11th October 1993

Coming into force

1st November 1993

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st November 1993.

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992(2) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In Schedule 10 (drugs and other substances not to be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)—

(a)the following entries shall be omitted

(b)the following entries shall be inserted at such places in the alphabetical order of the entries in that Schedule as are appropriate—

(c)in the entry for “Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Canned Rich Fruit Cake”, the word “Canned” shall be omitted.

(3) In Schedule 11 (drugs to be prescribed under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances), in the entry relating to Cyanocobalamin, in column 1 after the word “Cyanocobalamin” there shall be inserted the word “Tablets”.

Revocation

3.  The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1991(3) are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

4th October 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the Principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Regulation 2(2)(a) removes certain substances in Schedule 10 to the Principal Regulations which lists drugs and other substances which may not be prescribed for supply in the course of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977 and regulation 2(2)(b) includes certain other substances in that list.Regulation 2(2)(c) and (3)(a) makes minor amendments respectively to Schedules 10 and 11 to the Principal Regulations. Regulation 3 revokes the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1991.

(1)

1977 c. 49.See section 128(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”; section 29 was amended by paragraphs 42 and 93 of Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), by paragraph 16(9) of Schedule 5 to the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), modified by article 7(3) of S.I.1985/39, and further amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

(2)

S.I.1992/635; the relevant amending instrument is S.I.1992/2412.

(3)

S.I. 1991/2263.