The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2241 (S.187)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1991

Made

8th October 1991

Laid before Parliament

11th October 1991

Coming into force

1st November 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 19, 27 and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st November 1991.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974(2).

Amendment to Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations

2.  In Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations (drugs and other substances not to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)—

(a) the following entries shall be deleted:—

• Fiberform

• Forceval Capsules

• Forceval Junior Capsules

• Fortimel

• Fresubin 750

• Maxisorb

• Tonexis HP;

  (b)

  each of the following entries shall be inserted at such points in the alphabetical order as are appropriate having regard to the initial letter of each entry:—

• Actomite

• Almay Aftersun Soother

• Almay Face Powder

• Beechams Powders Capsule Form

• Boots No.7 Vitamin E Skin Cream

• Christy’s Rich Lanolin

• Christy’s Skin Emulsion

• Cidex Longlife

• Cidex Sterilising Solution

• 4711 Cologne

• Communion Wafers

• Coppertone Apres Plage Aftersun Milk

• Cuticura Talcum Powder

• Dietade Diabetic Jam

• Dietade Diabetic Marmalade

• Dietade Diabetic Squash

• Dietade Fruit Sugar

• Dietade Jelly Crystals

• Efamol Marine Capsules

• Efamol Oil

• Efamol Plus Capsules

• Efamol PMP

• Emuwash

• Fade Out Skin Lightening Cream

• Gevral Tablets

• GF Brand Baking Powder

• GF Brand Banana Cake

• GF Brand Cooking Crumbs

• GF Brand Date and Walnut Cake

• GF Brand Ginger Cake

• GF Brand Gravy Mix

• GF Brand Hot Breakfast Cereal

• GF Brand Lemon Cake

• Heinz Weight Watcher Baked Beans

• Inoven Caplets

• Jochem Hormone Hair Preparation

• Jolen Creme Bleach

• Juvela Gluten-Free Sage and Onion Stuffing Mix

• Lamberts L-Threonine 500mg Capsules

• Lamberts Protein Deficiency Formula Capsules

• London Herb and Spice Herbal Tea Bags

• L-Threonine Capsules

• L-Threonine Tablets

• Milupa Harvest Meusli Breakfast

• Neutradol Concentrated Air Deodoriser

• Nicorette Plus

• Nurofen Soluble Tablets

• Ozium 500 Air Sanitizer

• Ozium 1500 Air Sanitizer

• Ozium 3000

• Regina Royal Jelly Capsules

• Rennie Gold Tablets

• Rennie Plus Tablets

• St Clements Fruit Juice Concentrate

• Stute Diabetic Blackcurrent Jam

• Stute Diabetic Marmalade

• Tymasil.

Ian Lang

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

8th October 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st November 1991, amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations lists drugs and other substances which cannot be supplied by doctors, or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services. Regulation 2 deletes certain substances from, and adds other substances to, that Schedule.

(1)

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), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a) and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 37; section 27 was amended by the 1980 Act, section 20(2), by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66), section 3(3) and by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 19(7); seesection 108(1) for definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

S.I. 1974/506; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/296, 534, 804 and 1713, 1986/303, 925, 1507 and 2310, 1987/1382, 1988/1073 and 2259, 1989/1883 and 1990, 1990/883 and 2509 and 1991/572.