Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In Schedule 10 (drugs and other substances not to be prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services)—

(a)the following entries shall be omitted:—

(b)the following entries shall be inserted at such places in the alphabetical order of the entries in that Schedule as are appropriate, having regard to the initial letter of each entry:—

(c)in the entry for “Rite-Diet Gluten-Free Biscuits”, for the words “half-coated”, there shall be substituted the words “milk”.

(3) In Schedule 11 (drugs to be prescribed under pharmaceutical services only in certain circumstances), after the entries relating to Clobazam, there shall be inserted in columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively the following—

CyanocobalaminA patient who is a vegan or who has a proven vitamin B12 deficiency of dietary originTreatment or prevention of vitamin B12 deficiency