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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/681",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1998",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 which govern the arrangements to be made by Health Authorities for the provision in their area of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977 (“the 1977 Act”).\nThe Regulations make amendments to provide for the arrangements to be made for those doctors who perform personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under section 1(1) of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (“the 1997 Act”) when the pilot scheme requires the doctor to provide certain patients with pharmaceutical services under these Regulations. Such arrangements apply only to a doctor performing personal medical services who immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations was providing general medical services together with pharmaceutical services to patients under Part II of the 1977 Act (regulation 9).\nThe Regulations also provide for arrangements to be made for those doctors who formerly performed personal medical services under a pilot scheme which requires dispensing services to be provided to certain patients under the pilot scheme, and who rejoin the medical list, to re-commence the provision of pharmaceutical services to their patients under Part II of the 1977 Act (regulation 10).\nHealth Authorities are required by these Regulations to make a list of dispensing doctors consisting of the names of those doctors in their area who provide general medical services together with pharmaceutical services under Part II of the 1977 Act in Part 1 of the list, and the names of those doctors in their area who perform personal medical services under a pilot scheme and who also provide pharmaceutical services under Part II of the 1977 Act in Part 2 of the list (regulation 11).\nOther provisions of the Regulations make consequential amendments to the principal Regulations.\nThese Regulations impose no cost on business.\nA copy of any directions given under the 1997 Act may be obtained from NHS Executive Headquarters, Primary Care Division, Primary Care Act—Personal Medical Services Pilots, Room 7E60, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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