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The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001
National Health Service (NHS)
Dispensaries and prescription services
Health care services and specialisms
Primary health care
Community health services
King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
2017-11-08
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) which govern arrangements to be made by Health Authorities for the provision, in respect of their areas, of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.Regulation 2 inserts a new definition of “Charges Regulations” into regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the principal Regulations.Regulation 3 extends the circumstances in which a chemist is required to ask a person presenting an order for drugs and appliances under paragraph 3(1) of the chemist’s terms of service to provide specified evidence to substantiate specific claims relating to exemptions from charges due under the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2001.Regulation 4 similarly amends the requirements for doctors authorised to provide pharmaceutical services for a patient under regulation 20 of the principal Regulations.