2016 No. 195
National Health Service

The National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 69 and 105(7) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 and come into force on 16th September 2016.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 20112.

(1)

The National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 20112 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 3(2) (supply of drugs and appliances), in each place where it occurs, for “1st April 2015” substitute “1st April 2016”.

SHONA ROBISON
A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations provide that where a person provides pharmaceutical services to a patient who presents an English prescription form, that person must make and recover from the patient the charges specified in the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/570) as at a specified date, unless certain exemptions apply.

Regulation 2 updates the principal Regulations so that the charge to be made will reflect the rate applicable under those Regulations as at 1st April 2016. That applicable rate was amended by S.I. 2016/325. Those Regulations specify the following charges:

  • £8.40 per item, or £16.80 per pair, in relation to the supply of elastic hosiery;

  • £8.40 in relation to the supply of any other appliance;

  • £8.40 in relation to the supply of each quantity of a drug.