The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1992

Made: 5th October 1992

Laid before Parliament: 12th October 1992

Coming into force: 2nd November 1992

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[^f00001], 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 1992 and shall come into force on 2nd November 1992.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974[^f00002].

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:—

• Amplex Original Mint Capsules

• Biovital Liquid

• Cyanocobalamin Tablets (any strength)

• Emulave

• Fennings Adult Powders

• Hill’s Bronchial Balsam

• Night Nurse Capsules

• Night Nurse Cold Remedy

• Savlon Baby Care Cream; 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:—

• Acclaim Flea Control Aerosol Plus

• Actifed Cough Relief

• Allinson’s Wholemeal Flour

• Ambre Solaire High Protection Cream SPF10

• Amplex Mint Capsules

• Amplex Original Capsules

• Anadin Ibuprofen Tablets

• Andrews Answer

• Andrews Antacid Tablets

• Appleford’s Gluten-Free Rice Cakes

• Askit Capsules

• Aspro Paraclear Junior Tablets

• Aspro Paraclear Tablets

• Astral Moisturising Cream

• Autan Insect Repellent

• Aveeno Emulave Bar

• Bausch and Lomb Concentrated Cleaner (for hard lenses)

• Bausch and Lomb Soaking and Wetting Solution

• Beechams Night Nurse Capsules

• Beechams Night Nurse Syrup

• Benylin Non-Drowsy Cough Linctus

• Bio-Light Slimming Food Supplement

• Biovital Vitamin Tonic

• Bronalin Dry Cough Linctus

• Cabdrivers Junior Linctus

• Cal-A-Cool Aftersun Moisturising Cream

• Calpol Extra Tablets

• Candermyl Liposome Cream

• Cantassium Fructose

• Cetaphil Lotion

• Chickweed Ointment

• Clerz Lubricating, Cleaning and Comfort Sachets

• Clinique Clarifying Lotion

• Clinique Continuous Coverage

• Clinique Crystal Clear Cleaning Oil

• Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturising Lotion

• Clinique Facial Mild Soap

• Confiance Dietary Supplement Tablets

• Contactasol Solar Saline Spray

• Coppertone Sun Tanning Lotion SPF6

• Cullen’s Headache Powders

• Cuprofen Tablets

• Dentu-Hold Liquid

• Dettox Antibacterial Cleanser

• Dextro Energy Glucose Tablets

• Dietade Dietary Foods Fruit Sugar

• Dusk Insect Repellant Cream

• Elagen

• Elsan Blue Liquid

• Evening Primrose Oil Capsules

• Fanalgic Syrup

• Fanalgic Tablets

• Farley’s Farex Weaning Food

• Farley’s Premcare

• Farley’s Premcare Ready-to-Feed

• Femafen Capsules

• Fennings Adult Cooling Powders

• GF Dietary Gluten-Free Carob Marble Cake

• GF Dietary Gluten-Free Christmas Pudding

• Health Aid Vitamin E Cream

• Health Aid Vitamin E Hand and Body Lotion

• Hedex Extra Caplets

• Hill’s Adult Balsam

• Ibrufhalal Tablets

• Jungle Formula Insect Repellent Gel

• K'an Herbal Preparations

• Kolynos Denture Fixative

• Lem-Plus Capsules

• Lemsip Cold Relief Capsules

• Lemsip Night Time Liquid

• Lotil Facial Cream

• Maws Sterilising Tablets

• Meltus Adult Dry Cough Elixir

• Meltus Adult Expectorant

• Meltus Baby Cough Linctus

• Meltus Honey and Lemon Cough Linctus

• Meltus Junior Expectorant

• Mentholatum Deep Freeze Spray

• Migrafen Tablets

• Milton Sterilising Tablets

• Minadex Chewable Vitamin Tablets

• Mu-Cron Junior Syrup

• Napisan Nappy Treatment

• Natusan Baby Ointment

• Neutrogena Body Oil (Scented and Unscented)

• Neutrogena Conditioner

• Neutrogena Hand Cream

• Neutrogena Lip Care

• Neutrogena Liquid

• Neutrogena Moisture

• Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Body Emulsion

• Neutrogena Rainbath Shower and Bath Gel

• Neutrogena Shampoo

• Nicotinell TTS Patches

• Novaprin Tablets

• Pacifene Tablets

• Panaleve Six Plus Suspension

• Panerel Tablets

• Perform 1 Disinfecting Solution

• Perform 2 Rinsing and Neutralising Solution

• Pestroy Flea and Insect Powder

• Phisohex System Medicated Face Wash

• Phygeine Liquid

• Pine Bath Milk

• Power Nature Vitamin E Cream

• Pregaine Shampoo

• PR Freeze Spray

• Probase 3 Cream

• Proflex Capsules

• Radian-B Mineral Bath Liquid

• Radian-B Mineral Bath Salts

• Reach Mouthwash

• Relcofen Tablets

• Remegel Tablets

• Rennie Rap-Eze Tablets

• Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Banana Cake

• Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Biscuits (milk chocolate digestive biscuit)

• Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Coconut Cookies

• Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Date and Walnut Cake

• Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Ginger Cake

• Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Gingernut Cookies

• Rite-Diet Lemon Cake

• Roskens Ultracare 3

• Savlon Dry Skin Cream

• Seven Seas Vitamin and Mineral Tonic

• Slim-Fast Meal Replacement

• SP Cold Relief Capsules

• Sunnyvale Gluten-Free Rich Plum Pudding

• Supradyn Capsules

• Supradyn Effervescent Tablets

• Supradyn Tablets for Children

• Tenaset Wash Cream

• Tenaset Wash Cream (Unperfumed)

• Tixylix Cough and Cold Linctus

• Tixylix Day-Time Cough Linctus

• Tixylix Decongestant Inhalant Capsules

• Unichem Cold Relief Day-Time Liquid

• Unichem Cold Relief Night-Time Liquid

• Unichem Cold Relief Powders

• Vicks Vaposyrup for Chesty Coughs

• Vicks Vaposyrup for Chesty Coughs and Nasal Congestion

• Vicks Vaposyrup for Dry Coughs

• Vicks Vaposyrup for Dry Coughs and Nasal Congestion.

Substitution of Schedule 2B to the principal Regulations

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For Schedule 2B to the principal Regulations (drugs to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances) there shall be substituted the following Schedule:—

SCHEDULE 2B

(1)	(2)	(3)
Drug	Patient	Condition
Acetylcysteine Granules	Any patient	Abdominal complications associated with cystic fibrosis
Carbocisteine	A patient under the age of 18 who has undergone a tracheostomy	Any condition which, through damage or disease, affects the airways and has required a tracheostomy
Clobazam	Any patient	Epilepsy
Cyanocobalamin Tablets	Any patient who is a vegan or who has a proven vitamin B12 deficiency of dietary origin	Treatment or prevention of vitamin B12 deficiency
Pregnavite Forte F Tablets	A woman who has previously given birth to a child (whether or not born alive) with a defect of the neural tube or aborted a foetus with such a defect	Reduction of the risk of spina bifida or anencephaly in a child which may be born to the patient

Signed

Fraser of Carmyllie — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 5th October 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 2nd November 1992, 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 list 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.

Schedule 2B to the principal Regulations lists certain drugs which may be prescribed under the NHS but only for specific clinical conditions. Regulation 3 in substituting that Schedule includes a new drug, Cyanocobalamin Tablets.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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”.

[^f00002]: 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 and 2241.