2005 No. 326

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2005

Made

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 27(2), 69(1), 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st July 2005.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 20012

In the definition of “supplementary prescriber” in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 20012–

a

at the end of sub-paragraph (b) omit “or”; and

b

at the end of sub-paragraph (c) insert–

; or

d

the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council in pursuance of article 5 of the Health Professions Order 20013 relating to–

i

chiropodists and podiatrists;

ii

physiotherapists; or

iii

radiographers: diagnostic or therapeutic

ANDREW P KERRA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the making and recovery of charges for the supply of drugs, medicines and appliances under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

These Regulations amend the definition of “supplementary prescriber” in the principal Regulations to include additional categories of health care professional who may also prescribe as a supplementary prescriber. The additional categories of health care professional are persons who are registered in the parts of the register maintained under article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001 for chiropodists and podiatrists, for physiotherapists or for diagnostic or therapeutic radiographers and against whose name in the register is recorded an annotation signifying that they are qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a supplementary prescriber.

The effect of the amendment is to make provision in the principal Regulations for the making and recovery of charges for the supply of drugs, medicines and appliances ordered by those additional categories of health care professional.