The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000

Supply of drugs and appliances at Walk-in-Centres

6.—(1) Where drugs or appliances are supplied to a patient, for the purposes of his treatment by a doctor or nurse prescriber at a Walk-in-Centre the Health Authority, NHS trust, Primary Care Trust or other person responsible for the management of the Centre shall, except in the case of drugs administered or appliances fitted at the Centre and subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), make and recover from the patient–

(a) in respect of an item of elastic hosiery a charge of £6.00, that is to say a charge of £12.00 per pair;

(b) in respect of the supply of each other appliance and each quantity of a drug, a charge of £6.00.

(2) Where a charge is paid under paragraph (1), the person making the payment shall on doing so sign a declaration in writing that the relevant charge has been paid.

(3) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is exempt–

(a) under paragraph 1(1)(a) to (d) of Schedule 12 to the Act,

(b) under regulation 7, or

(c) by reason of being entitled to remission under regulation 3 of the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations,

and who, in the case described in paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 12 to the Act and in the cases described in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), completes a declaration of entitlement to such exemption or remission and provides such evidence of entitlement as the Health Authority, NHS trust or Primary Care Trust or other person supplying the drug or appliance may reasonably require.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, where a drug ordered on single written direction is supplied by instalments, the charge of £6.00 payable for that drug shall be payable upon the supply of the first instalment.

(5) A Health Authority, NHS trust, Primary Care Trust or other person making and recovering a charge under this regulation shall, if so required by a patient, give him a receipt for the amount received on a form which shall contain forms of declaration in support of an application for repayment and information as to whom an application for repayment shall be made.