The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Amendment of regulation 2

2.  In regulation 2(1)(1) (interpretation) of the principal Regulations, in the appropriate alphabetical position, insert—

““appliance use review service” means arrangements made in accordance with section 127 of the 2006 Act for a pharmacist or specialist nurse to review a person’s use of any specified appliance;”;

““specified appliance” means—

(a)

any of the following appliances listed in Part IXA of the Drug Tariff—

(i)

a catheter appliance (including a catheter accessory and maintenance solution),

(ii)

a laryngectomy or tracheostomy appliance,

(iii)

an anal irrigation system,

(iv)

a vacuum pump or constrictor ring for erectile dysfunction, or

(v)

a wound drainage pouch;

(b)

an incontinence appliance listed in Part IXB of the Drug Tariff; or

(c)

a stoma appliance listed in Part IXC of the Drug Tariff;”;

““stoma appliance customisation” means the customisation of a quantity of more than one stoma appliance, where—

(a)

the stoma appliances to be customised are listed in Part IXC of the Drug Tariff;

(b)

the customisation involves modification to the same specification of multiple identical parts for use with each appliance; and

(c)

that modification is based on the patient’s measurements or a record of those measurements and, if applicable, a template;”; and

““supplier of appliances” means a person with whom a Primary Care Trust has entered into arrangements for the provision of pharmaceutical services, being arrangements which are incorporated into terms of service as a consequence of regulation 3(c);”.

(1)

Amended by S.I. 2005/1501 and 3491, 2006/552, 562, 913, 1501 and 3373, 2007/289 and 674, 2008/528 and 2009/2205.