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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-wales-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2003/143",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-wales-regulations-2003",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.\nRegulation 2 amends the list in Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations, which lists drugs and other substances that may not be prescribed for supply in the course of pharmaceutical services provided under the National Health Service Act 1977, by removing specified oral mucolytic products.\nRegulation 3 amends Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations, which lists drugs and other substances that may only be prescribed in certain circumstances in the course of pharmaceutical services provided under the National Health Service Act 1977.\nRegulation 3(a) removes specified oral mucolytic products from, and regulation 3(b) adds Tadalafil (Cialis) to, the list in Schedule 11.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/143/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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