Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

21 Additional dental and pharmaceutical services for whose provision facilities can be made available at health centres and prohibition of employment there of registered pharmacists

(1) At the end of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 21 of the 1946 Act (which includes amongst the purposes for which facilities can be made available at health centres the provision of general dental services under Part IV of the Act by dental practitioners), there shall be added the words " and, on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Minister, for the provision by dental practitioners, otherwise than as part of general dental services provided under the said Part IV, of such (if any) dental treatment and appliances as may be so determined in the case of a particular health centre ".

(2) At the end of paragraph (c) of the said subsection (1) (which includes amongst the purposes for which facilities can be made available at health centres the provision of pharmaceutical services under Part IV by registered pharmacists), there shall be added the words " and, on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Minister, for the provision by registered pharmacists, otherwise than as part of pharmaceutical services provided under the said Part IV, of such (if any) drugs, medicines and appliances and articles (other than as aforesaid) ordinarily supplied by pharmacists as may be so determined in the case of a particular health centre ".

(3) A local health authority shall not, in the performance of the duty imposed on them by subsection (2) of the said section 21 to provide staff for health centres, employ registered pharmacists at a particular health centre for the purpose of providing pharmaceutical services under the said Part IV, unless they were doing so on the 22nd March 1968 ; and, if they were doing so on that day, they shall not employ registered pharmacists at that centre for that purpose to a number greater than that to which they employed them there for that purpose on that day.

(4) The foregoing provisions of this section do not apply to Scotland, but section 15(6) of the 1947 Act shall have effect as if the references therein to medical practitioners, general medical services under Part IV of that Act and other personal medical services included—

(a) references respectively to dental practitioners, general dental services under the said Part IV and other personal dental services; and

(b) references respectively to registered pharmacists, pharmaceutical services under the said Part IV and other personal pharmaceutical services.