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The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 2008

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Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000

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2.—(1) The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a)insert the following definition after the definition of “chemist”—

““community treatment order” means an order under section 17A(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983(2);”; and

(b)insert the following definition after the definition of “local pharmaceutical services”—

““mental disorder” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Mental Health Act 1983(3);”.

(3) In regulation 5 (supply of drugs and appliances by certain NHS bodies) the following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (3A)—

“(3A) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is accepted by the person supplying the drug as—

(a)suffering from tuberculosis, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of tuberculosis; or

(b)being subject to a community treatment order, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of mental disorder.”.

(4) In regulation 6A (supply of drugs under Patient Group Directions) the following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (3A)—

“(3A) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is accepted by the person supplying the drug as—

(a)suffering from tuberculosis, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of tuberculosis; or

(b)being subject to a community treatment order, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of mental disorder.”.

(1)

S.I. 2000/620; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/3189, 2002/2352, 2005/578, 2006/552, 2007/1975 and 2008/571.

(2)

1983.c.20; section 17A was inserted by section 32 of the Mental Health Act 2007, c.12.

(3)

The definition of “mental disorder” was substituted by section 1(2) of the Mental Health Act 2007.

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