Part II

Primary Care

Pharmaceutical services

Provision of additional pharmaceutical services.
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In the 1978 Act, after section 27, insert—

Arrangements for providing additional pharmaceutical services.
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The Secretary of State may—
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give directions to a Health Board requiring them to arrange for the provision to persons in their area of additional pharmaceutical services; or
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by giving directions to a Health Board authorise them to arrange for such provision if they wish to do so.
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Directions under this section may make different provision in relation to different services specified in the directions.
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The Secretary of State must publish any directions under this section in the Drug Tariff or in such other manner as he thinks appropriate.
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In this section—
- “additional pharmaceutical services”, in relation to directions, means such services (of a kind that do not fall within section 27) as may be specified in the directions; and
- “Drug Tariff” means the Drug Tariff published under regulation 9 of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 or under any corresponding provision replacing, or otherwise derived from, that regulation.
S.I. 1995/414.
S. 27(1) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1)