Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services.

Regulation 2 removes some drugs and substances from, and adds others to, Schedule 3A to the principal Regulations which contains a list of drugs and other substances for which a doctor may not issue a prescription for supply under pharmaceutical services and which may not be dispensed under those services.

Schedule 3B to the principal Regulations contains a list of drugs and other substances which may be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances. Regulation 3 inserts Locabiotal Aerosol into that list.