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

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1997-06-06
State In force
Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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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[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

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)–

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 Aerosol Any patient Treatment of infections and inflammation of the oropharynx

Signed

Sam Galbraith — Minister for Health, Scottish Office — 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1995/416; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3199.

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