Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made: 31st March 1998

Coming into operation in accordance with Regulation 1(2)

The Department of Health and Social Services in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 98, and 106 of, and Schedule 15 to, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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Transitional provisions

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Revocation

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on

Brian Grzymek — Assistant Secretary — 31st March 1998.

The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby approves the foregoing Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on

J. G. Sullivan — Assistant Secretary — 31st March 1998.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations revoke and replace the Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 to correct a technical error therein.

The Regulations amend the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges for drugs and appliances supplied by doctors and chemists providing pharmaceutical services, and by hospitals and HSS trusts to out-patients.

The charge for each item on prescription is increased from £5·65 to £5·80. The sums prescribed for the grant of pre-payment certificates of exemption from prescription charges are increased from £29·30 to £30·10 for a 4 month certificate and from £80·50 to £82·70 for a 12 month certificate.

The charge for elastic stockings is increased from £5·65 to £5·80 for each item (from £11·30 to £11·60 per pair) and for tights from £11·30 to £11·60.

The charge for a partial human hair wig is increased from £123·00 to £126·00, and for a stock modacrylic wig from £47·00 to £48·00. The charge for a full bespoke human hair wig is increased from £179·50 to £184·50. The charge for an abdominal or spinal support from £29·05 to £29·50.

These Regulations also make provision for all nurses employed by medical practitioners (and not just those employed in fundholding practices) to write prescriptions (regulation 2).

The Regulations provide in addition for the reduction of the remuneration of a doctor who provides pharmaceutical services to a patient by the amount of the charge recoverable under the Regulations (regulation 4(c)).

Transitional arrangements are made in respect of pre-payment certificates and appliances ordered, before 1st April 1998 (regulation 8).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14); the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/2229 (N.I. 24) Article 14, S.I. 1988/2249 (N.I. 24) Article 7 and S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1) Article 34 and Part II of Schedule 5

Editorial notes

[^key-ee344169baf37b645050e5663e1fd159]: Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.1998, see reg. 1(2)

[^key-e7bb920c86ad8dfb1ff8e7ecb65f21e6]: Reg. 1(2) revoked (1.4.1999) by Charges for Drugs and Appliances and Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999/166), regs. 1(1), 5

[^key-f1e7de220e92d454202602ec1e1fb222]: Regs. 3-9 revoked (1.4.1999) by Charges for Drugs and Appliances and Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999/166), regs. 1(1), 5

[^key-e049015a11dba456525e6df5e3fb4ebc]: Reg. 1(1) revoked (1.4.2010) by The Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Abolition) and Supply of Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/71), regs. 1, 4(1), Sch.

[^key-934aadf2fa18feb4fc880de2d80b1f98]: Reg. 1(3) revoked (1.4.2010) by The Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Abolition) and Supply of Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/71), regs. 1, 4(1), Sch.

[^key-9bf6732f414e8937dec2f5af2a0180ca]: Reg. 2 revoked (1.4.2010) by The Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Abolition) and Supply of Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/71), regs. 1, 4(1), Sch.