Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 (“the 1974 Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Schedule 3A to the 1974 Regulations 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. Regulation 2(4) of these Regulations removes some drugs from, and includes others in, that list.

Schedule 3B to the 1974 Regulations contains a list of drugs which may be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances. Regulation 2(5) of these Regulations substitutes a new list, the change of substance being the inclusion of an entry for Pregnavite Forte F Tablets. Regulation 2(3) makes a consequential amendment and regulation 3 makes a consequential revocation of spent provisions.

Schedule 4C to the 1974 Regulations makes provision for a pharmacy practices sub-committee of a Family Practitioner Committee. Regulation 2(6)(a) of these Regulations extends the provision as to deputies for members to those members of that sub-committee who are registered pharmaceutical chemists.

Regulation 2(2), (6)(b) and (7) corrects minor errors.