The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale – Exemption) Order 1980

2.—(1) The Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale – Exemption) Order 1980(1) shall be amended as provided in this paragraph.

(2) In article 4B (exemption for health professionals who supply medicinal products under a Patient Group Direction in order to assist doctors or dentists in providing national health services)(2)—

(a)in paragraph (2)(d)(ii)—

(i)after “health authority” insert “or Primary Care Trust”,

(ii)before sub-paragraph (a), insert—

(aa)in the case of the provision of primary medical services, with which a contract or agreement for the provision of those services has been made or which provides the services itself;,

(iii)in sub-paragraph (a), omit “general medical services”, and

(iv)in sub-paragraph (b), for “which is a party to the pilot scheme under which those services are provided” substitute “provided under a pilot scheme, which is a party to that pilot scheme”; and

(b)in paragraph (3), for sub-paragraph (b)(i) substitute—

(i)in relation to England and Wales, the provision of primary medical services under Part I of the National Health Service Act 1977;.

(1)

S.I. 1980/1924.

(2)

Article 4B was inserted by S.I. 2000/1919.