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Statutory Instruments

1997 No.1473 (S.117)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1997

Made

6th June 1997

Laid before Parliament

10th June 1997

Coming into force

1st July 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(5), 19, 105(7) 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 Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995(2).

Amendment of Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations

2.  In Schedule 10 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 omitted:–

(b)the following entries shall be inserted at such places in the alphabetical order of the entries in that Schedule as are appropriate:–

Amendment of Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations

3.  In Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations (drugs to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances), after the entry relating to Cyanocobalamin Tablets there shall be inserted in columns 1,2 and 3 respectively the following:–

“Locabiotal AerosolAny patientTreatment of infections and inflammation of the oropharynx”

Sam Galbraith

Minister for Health, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th June 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

Regulation 2 removes certain drugs and other substances from the list, in Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations, which identifies those drugs and other substances which may not be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply in the course of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and adds other drugs and substances to that list. Regulation 3 adds another drug to Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations which identifies those drugs which may be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed only in certain circumstances.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 2(5) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 9, paragraph 19(1); 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) (“the 1983 Act”), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a), by the 1990 Act, section 37 and by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51), Schedule, paragraph 29(a) and is to be read with the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; section 105(7) was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the 1983 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 24; see section 108(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

S.I. 1995/416; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3199.