The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Personal Medical Services Agreements) and (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Personal Medical Services Agreements) and (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 13^th January 2005.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

(3) In these Regulations—

“the GMS Contracts Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004(1);

“the PMS Agreements Regulations” means the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2004(2);

“the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations” means the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992(3).

Amendment of the GMS Contracts Regulations

2.  In Schedule 9 to the GMS Contracts Regulations (Primary Care Trusts specified for the purposes of repeatable prescribing), for “Leicester Primary Care Trust” substitute “Leicester City West Primary Care Trust”.

Amendment of the PMS Agreements Regulations

3.  In Schedule 9 to the PMS Agreements Regulations (Primary Care Trusts specified for the purposes of repeatable prescribing), for “Leicester Primary Care Trust” substitute “Leicester City West Primary Care Trust”.

Amendment of the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations

4.  The Pharmaceutical Services Regulations shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “supplementary prescriber”(4) substitute—

“(a) whose name is registered in–

(i) the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001(5),

(ii) the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act 1954(6), or

(iii) the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976(7), and”; and

(b) in Schedule 3A(8) (Primary Care Trusts specified for the purposes of repeat dispensing), for “Leicester Primary Care Trust” substitute “Leicester City West Primary Care Trust”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Rosie Winterton

Minister of State,

Department of Health

11th January 2005