http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/310/madeThe National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003National Health Service (NHS)MedicinesCareHealth care services and specialismsPrimary health careKing's Printer for Scotland2017-01-12NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995, which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004reg 16 Sch 2 2003 No. 310 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (<Abbreviation Expansion="Number">No.</Abbreviation> 2) Regulations 2003 Made 10th June 2003 Laid before the Scottish Parliament 13th June 2003 Coming into force 27th June 2003 The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations: Citation and commencement 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 27th June 2003. Amendment of Schedule 11 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 2 In Schedule 11 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (drugs to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances) after the entry “Thymoxamine Hydrochloride (Erecnos)” in each of columns 1 and 2 insert “Vardenafil (Levitra)”. MALCOLM CHISHOLM A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
10th June 2003 (This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995, which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

Regulation 2 adds a product to Schedule 11 to those Regulations, which identifies those drugs which may be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances.

1978 c. 29; section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), section 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) (“the 1983 Act”), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a), by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 37, by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51), Schedule, paragraph 29(a), and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 41(10), Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 39 and Schedule 3, Part I and is to be read with the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; section 105(7), which contains provisions relevant to the making of Regulations, was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7, by the 1983 Act, Schedule 9, Part I, paragraph 24 and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains a definition of “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). S.I. 1995/416; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/1473, 1999/1620 and S.S.I. 1999/54, 2002/111 and 2003/11. The entry for “Thymoxamine Hydrochloride (Erecnos)” was inserted by S.I. 1999/1620.