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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/662",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations consolidate, with amendments, those provisions of The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 (“the 1974 Regulations) which relate to pharmaceutical services. The provisions of the 1974 Regulations which relate to General Medical Services are consolidated, with amendments, in The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992. The 1974 Regulations and all subsequent amendments to them are revoked by regulation 26 and Schedule 4. These Regulations now regulate the terms on which pharmaceutical services are provided under The National Health Service Act 1977.\nThe principal changes effected by these Regulations are the following.\nThe 1974 Regulations contained provision enabling Family Health Services Authorities (“FHSAs”) to make arrangments for the provision of oxygen concentrators in their localities. Those provisions have been deleted.\nWhere an application to be included in the pharmaceutical list has been determined in accordance with the Regulations, the persons who are entitled to appeal no longer include the Local Medical Committee and the Local Pharmaceutical Committee.\nIn the terms of service for chemists, the prohibition on any form of advertising has been removed.\nA new paragraph 4 is substituted in the terms of service to require a chemist to obtain the approval of the FHSA for the times at which he proposes to provide pharmaceutical services from the premises in respect of which he is included on a pharmaceutical list. Provision is made for the FHSA to grant approval subject to any conditions that it considers necessary to meet local needs. A chemist may apply for a variation of the approved times or of any condition and may appeal either against a refusal to approve his proposed times or against the imposition of any conditions.\nThese Regulations also make a number of amendments to the 1974 Regulations which are either minor or consequential drafting amendments or procedural in nature.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/662/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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