# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998, Regulation 9: Amendment of regulation 20 of the principal Regulations


(1) Regulation 20 of the principal Regulations (arrangements for provision of pharmaceutical services by doctors) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1), after “included” insert “or a doctor falling within paragraph (1A)”.
(3) After paragraph (1), insert—
“(1A) A doctor falls within this paragraph if—
(a) he performs personal medical services under a pilot scheme to which the Health Authority is a party;
(b) his name was included in the medical list of the Health Authority immediately before he started to perform personal medical services (whether under that pilot scheme or under another pilot scheme to which the Health Authority was also a party);
(c) the pilot scheme provides for him to have a doctor’s list, and the patient is included in that list; and
(d) by virtue of the pilot scheme, any services of the kind referred to in this regulation provided to persons who receive personal medical services under the scheme are to be carried out under these Regulations as pharmaceutical services rather than as dispensing services under the pilot scheme.”.
(4) After paragraph (2) insert—
“(2A) In paragraphs (2) and (4), in relation to a doctor who falls within paragraph (1A)—
(a) references to his partner are to any other doctor who also performs personal medical services under the same pilot scheme; and
(b) references to a practice include the doctors who collectively carry on a practice by way of performing personal medical services under a pilot scheme.”.
(5) In paragraph (5), after “list” insert “(or, in the case of a doctor falling within paragraph (1A), his doctor’s list)”.
(6) In paragraph (8), at the end insert “or, in the case of a doctor falling within paragraph (1A), in accordance with the requirements of the pilot scheme”.
(7) In paragraph (10), at the end insert “whether under the Medical Regulations or, in the case of a doctor falling within paragraph (1A), under the pilot scheme”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/681/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-9
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