Paragraph 8 Providing appliancesI1

Where an NHS appliance contractor is presented with a prescription form or a repeatable prescription, the NHS appliance contractor must only provide the appliances so ordered—

subject to any regulations in force under the Weights and Measures Act 1985 and the following provisions of this Schedule.

If the order is for, or a product to be provided in accordance with a SSP is, an appliance of a type requiring measuring and fitting by the NHS appliance contractor, the NHS appliance contractor must make all necessary arrangements for—

If the order is for, or a product to be provided in accordance with a SSP is, an appliance included in the Drug Tariff, the British National Formulary (including any Appendix published as part of that Formulary), the Dental Practitioner’s Formulary, the European Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex, the appliance provided must comply with the standard or formula specified therein.

Where an NHS appliance contractor provides an appliance under paragraph 5, the NHS appliance contractor must include with it in a written note, for the patient’s benefit, information to the effect that the product is being supplied in accordance with a SSP, identifying the particular SSP.