The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 No. 1329 (W. 138)

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the principal Regulations, insert the following definitions in the appropriate place in the alphabetical order—

““home oxygen order form” means a form provided by a Local Health Board and issued by a health care professional to authorise a person to supply home oxygen services to a patient requiring oxygen therapy at home;

“home oxygen services” means any of the following forms of oxygen therapy or supply—

(a)

ambulatory oxygen supply,

(b)

urgent supply,

(c)

hospital discharge supply,

(d)

long term oxygen therapy, and

(e)

short burst oxygen therapy;”.