2001 No. 706
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2001

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 19771 hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 19922.

(3)

These Regulations extend only to England.

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations2.

(1)

In paragraph 43 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (prescribing), in sub-paragraph (3) for “drugs specified in Schedule 2” substitute—

  • “the drug buprenorphine or a drug specified in Schedule 2”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hunt
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”), which regulate the terms on which doctors provide General Medical Services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

The Regulations amend paragraph 43 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations to allow doctors to prescribe buprenorphine by instalments, in addition to those drugs listed in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985, for the treatment of drug addiction to any of the drugs listed in that Schedule.