# The Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025, Regulation 5: Amendments to regulation 8


(1) Regulation 8 (general interpretation) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a) at the appropriate places insert—
““dispensing content for patients”, in relation to an internet service, means content communicated publicly by an internet service provider as part of an internet service (for example, on a website) which is relevant to the dispensing of orders for the supply of medicinal products;”;
““general practitioner” means a medical practitioner who is included in the General Practitioner Register kept under section 34C of the Medical Act 1983;”;
““internet service” means a service made publicly available by means of the internet, which includes a service made publicly available by means of a combination of the internet and an electronic communications service or electronic communications network (within the meanings given to those expressions in section 32 of the Communications Act 2003);”;
““medicinal products on a general sale list” means medicinal products subject to general sale, as provided for by regulation 5(1)(a) (and related expressions are to be construed accordingly);”;
““NHS dispensing practice” means the business as part of which NHS pharmaceutical services are provided by general practitioners;”; and
““NHS pharmaceutical services” means—
(a) in England, pharmaceutical services under Part 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006;
(b) in Wales, pharmaceutical services under Part 7 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;
(c) in Scotland, pharmaceutical services under Part 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
(d) in Northern Ireland, pharmaceutical services under Part 6 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;”; and
(b) in the definition of “retail pharmacy business”, for “or dentist)” substitute “, any other professional practice which is an NHS dispensing practice or a professional practice carried on by a dentist)”.
(3) For paragraph (3) substitute—
“(3) In these Regulations, references to selling by retail, or to retail sale, are references to—
(a) selling a product to a person who buys it otherwise than for a purpose specified in regulation 18(5); or
(b) selling or supplying that is treated as or as part of a retail sale by virtue of regulation 222A(2)(a).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348271577/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-medicines-amendments-relating-to-hub-and-spoke-dispensing-etc-regulations-2025/regulation-5
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