2002 No 1768
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2002

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

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st August 2002.

(2)

These Regulations extend to England only2.

Amendment of Schedule 10 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 19922.

In the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 19923, in Schedule 10 (drugs and other substances not to be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)—

(a)

the following entries shall be deleted—

  • Cow & Gate Nutriprem 2

  • Farley’s Premcare; and

    1. (a)

      the following entries shall be inserted in the correct alphabetical position—

  • Boots Glucosamine Sulphate Capsules

  • Healthaid Glucosamine Sulphate Tablets

  • Lamberts Glucosamine Sulphate Tablets

  • Solgar Glucosamine Sulfate Tablets

  • Vega Glucosamine Sulphate Capsules

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.

Regulation 2(a) removes two products from, and regulation 2(b) adds five products to, Schedule 10 of the principal Regulations. The effect of a product being listed in Schedule 10 is that it may not be prescribed for supply in the course of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977; the effect, therefore, of a product being removed from Schedule 10 is that it may be so prescribed.

As a result of the transfer of certain functions of the Secretary of State in relation to Wales to the National Assembly for Wales, these amendments apply to England only.