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These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2014.
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(1) Schedule 2 (drugs, medicines and other substances to be ordered only in certain circumstances) to the Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of drugs Etc) Regulations 2004 is amended as follows.
(a) in column 1 of the table (Drug), omit the entry for “Cyanocobalamin Tablets” and the adjacent part which relates to the description of the patient (column 2) and the condition (column 3);
(b) in column 1 of the table (Drug), for the words “The following drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction—” substitute “The following drugs—”;
(c) in column 1 of the table (Drug), in the entry relating to drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, omit—
(i) “Alprostadil, (Caverject), (MUSE), (Viridal)”,
(ii) “Apomorphine Hydrochloride, (Uprima)”,
(iii) “Moxisylyte Hydrochloride, (Erecnos)”,
(iv) “(Cialis)”,
(v) “Thymoxamine Hydrochloride, (Erecnos)”, and
(vi) “(Levitra)”;
(d) in column 2 of the table (Patient)—
(i) at the beginning of the entry relating to drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, insert “(1) The following patients with erectile dysfunction—“, and
(ii) at the end of paragraph (f) of that entry, insert—“
(2) Any patient.”; and
(e) in column 3 (Condition), opposite “(2) Any patient” in column 2, insert the words “Treatment of a condition, other than erectile dysfunction, in respect of which the drug ordered is considered an appropriate treatment”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 24th July 2014
Mark Timoney
A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
