The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974, which regulate the terms on which general medical and pharmaceutical services are provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

The Regulations amend doctors' terms of service—

(a) to enable doctors to treat patients at premises other than their practice premises outside their normal hours of availability. They must first obtain Health Board approval and must inform their patients of the address of any such premises. The premises must be proper and sufficient and may be inspected by the Board or the Area Medical Committee;

(b) to make it clear that where a doctor engages as a deputy another doctor who is on the medical list of any Health Board or Family Health Services Authority, the deputy alone will be responsible under the terms of service for his acts and omissions and those of any person employed by him or acting on his behalf;

(c) to provide that a deputy doctor may not treat patients at any premises approved under the new provision unless the doctor for whom he is acting has obtained the necessary approval; and

(d) to add providing or prescribing drugs against developing malaria to the list of services for which a doctor may charge a fee.