National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006 c.1792

National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006 No. 1792 (W. 188)

Summary:	These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2001 ("the principal Regulations") which provide for the making and recovery of charges for drugs and appliances supplied by chemists and doctors providing pharmaceutical and dispensing services, and by Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts to out-patients. Amendments made by these Regulations make provision for the application of the charges made for the provision of pharmaceutical services that are provided by chemists in respect of Welsh prescriptions to be applied to equivalent prescriptions presented by "qualifying patients" who also present a valid "entitlement card" (which will be issued by Local Health Boards). They also make provision for qualifying patients who are under the age of 25 years to claim an exemption from charge where they present an equivalent prescription form or equivalent batch issue relating to an equivalent repeatable prescription together with a valid entitlement card. A patient is a qualifying patient if he or she is resident in Wales and receives primary medical services from a contractor who is contracted to provide such services for a Primary Care Trust.
Made Under:	National Health Services Act 1977 (C. 49) - sections 77, 83, 83A and 126(4) of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 12
Amending:	National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (1358)

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