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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1360",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) which govern the arrangements to be made by Family Practitioner Committees for the provision for their locality of general medical services and pharmaceutical services.\nThe principal Regulations are amended by the substitution of a new regulation 25 so as to enable a Family Practitioner Committee to make arrangements for the provision of advice by a registered pharmaceutical chemist, and for the keeping by him of records, about drugs supplied by him to certain categories of person. The principal Regulations are also amended to provide for the inclusion in a pharmaceutical list of any chemist who has undertaken to provide these new services, and to require such a chemist to make his records available to the Family Practitioner Committee.\nThese Regulations also amend Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations to include among the certificates which a doctor must, under his terms of service, issue free of charge, a certificate in support of a claim by a severely mentally impaired patient for exemption from liability to pay the personal community charge. A number of minor amendments are also made in Schedules 4 and 4C of the principal Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1360/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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