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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/696",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1999",
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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”).\nRegulation 2 extends the definition of “prescription form” to include forms issued by NHS trusts and those issued by a Health Board in Scotland and a Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland; extends the definition of nurse prescriber to include certain nurses who assist in the performance of personal medical services under a pilot scheme; introduces a definition of “directed services” to mean the additional pharmaceutical services referred to in sections 41A and 41B of the 1977 Act; and amends the definition of “pharmaceutical services” to exclude “directed services”.\nRegulation 3 removes the provisions relating to supplemental services.\nRegulation 6 enables a chemist who doubts the authenticity of a prescription form presented to him and who acts as specified to claim payment in the manner specified.\nRegulation 8(2) provides for any arrangements for the provision of directed services by a chemist to be included as part of the chemists' terms of service.\nRegulation 8(3)(a) requires a chemist to ask a person presenting an order for drugs and appliances under paragraph 3(1) of the chemists' terms of service to provide specified evidence to substantiate specific claims relating to exemptions from or remission of charges due under the NHS (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1989 and regulation 9 places similar requirements on doctors authorised to provide pharmaceutical services to a patient under regulation 20.\nRegulation 8(4) amends the circumstances in which a chemist may be directed to secure the availability of a pharmacist to take account of any directions on the same point given by the Secretary of State under sections 41A of the 1977 Act.\nRegulations 2(2)(a) and 5 provide for certain consequential amendments and regulations 4, 7, and 8(3)(b) and (c) and (5) make certain minor clarifactory amendments.\nThese Regulations impose no cost on business.",
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  "status": null,
  "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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