The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

• Citation: S.I. 2009/1838 (W.)
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title, commencement and application

(1) The title of these Regulations is the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and they come into force on 10 July 2009.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Section 2 Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) (Wales) Regulations 2004

(1) The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) (Wales) Regulations 2004 are amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 2 (drugs or medicines to be ordered only in certain circumstances)—

(a) in the appropriate place in the entry for the drug Oseltamivir (Tamiflu), insert in columns 2 and 3 respectively—

(3) Adult and child patients where—

the supply of drugs is—

made—

while a disease is pandemic, or

in anticipation of of a disease being imminently pandemic,

and is a serious risk, or is potentially a serious risk, to human health;

and

in accordance with a protocol relating to that disease as provided for in article 12F of the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 or article 8 of the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale-Exemption) Order 1980 .

(b) After the words “In this Schedule” insert in the appropriate place in the alphabetical order—

“Pandemic influenza” means influenza caused by a new virus subtype that has an increased and sustained transmission during a global outbreak of influenza;