Regulation 3 Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009

after the definition of “optometrist independent prescriber”, insert—

• ““pandemic treatment protocol” means a protocol that—

  1. (a)

     relates to the supply of a prescription only medicine to be used for the prevention of or as a treatment for a disease that is, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently, pandemic and a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health, and

  2. (b)

     is approved in accordance with regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012^f1 (exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease),”, and

after the definition of “provisional pharmaceutical list”, insert—

• ““PTP” means a pandemic treatment protocol,”.