Statutory Instruments
National Health Service, England
Made
2nd July 2010
Laid before Parliament
6th July 2010
Coming into force
1st August 2010
The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 172, 182, 183, 184 and 272(7) and (8) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1).
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 1st August 2010.
2. In the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000(2)—
(a)in regulation 3 (supply of drugs and appliances by chemists), in paragraph (3A) for “regulation 7A(2)” substitute “regulations 7A(2) or 7D”;
(b)in regulation 4 (supply of drugs and appliances by doctors), in paragraph 3(d) for “regulation 7A(2)” substitute “regulations 7A(2) or 7D”;
(c)after regulation 7C (exemption from charges in respect of listed medicines) insert the following regulation—
7D. No charge shall be payable under regulation 3 or 4 in respect of any pharmaceutical services, local pharmaceutical services or dispensing services which are obtained on the presentation of a prescription form which is provided and issued in Northern Ireland.”.
3.—(1) Table A in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003(3) (modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987) is amended as follows.
(2) In the modifications of regulation 62 (calculation of grant income), for the entry relating to the insertion of paragraph (2C) substitute the following—
“(2C) There shall also be disregarded from a student’s grant income—
(a)any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulations 57 to 59 of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2009(4) which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under Chapter 2 of Part 6 of those Regulations;
(b)any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulations 38 or 39 of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2009(5) which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under regulations 46 to 48 of those Regulations; and
(c)any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulation 58 of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(6) which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under regulation 66 of those Regulations.”
(3) In the modifications of regulation 66A (treatment of student loans), in the first entry, for “Student Support Information Guide 2009-2010” substitute “Student Support Information Guide 2010-2011(7)”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
2nd July 2010
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations which apply to England amend the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2000 (“the Charges Regulations”) and the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 (“the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations”).
Regulation 2 inserts regulation 7D in the Charges Regulations to provide for the free provision of pharmaceutical services, local pharmaceutical services and dispensing services on the presentation of a prescription form which has been provided and issued under the provisions which apply in Northern Ireland.
Regulation 3 updates—
(a)references to student funding regulations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These set out the entitlement to grants and loans available to students. Certain of the amounts of student maintenance grants are disregarded in calculating the entitlement of students to the payment of travel expenses and the remission of charges under the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations, , and
(b)the reference to the publication which describes additional loans paid under the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007. These loans are disregarded in the calculation of a student’s loan income when a person’s entitlement to the payment of NHS travel expenses and the remission of NHS charges is being established under the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private and voluntary sectors is foreseen.
2006 c.41. By virtue of section 271 of the Act the powers exercised by the Secretary of State in making these Regulations are exercisable only in relation to England. The expressions “prescribed” and “regulations”, which are relevant to the powers being exercised in these Regulations, are defined in section 275 of the Act.
S.I. 2000/620, relevant amendments are made by S.I 2008/571 and .2009/2230.
S.I. 2003/2382; relevant amendments are made by S.I 2006/2171, 2007/1975 and 2009/1599.
The Guide is available on the Student Awards Agency for Scotland website at www.saas.gov.uk.