Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013

Inhalt

1. Art. 1 Short title, collective citation and commencement.
2. Art. 2 Interpretation.
3. Art. 3 Laying of regulations.
4. Art. 4 Establishment, etc. of List of Interchangeable Medicinal Products.
5. Art. 5 Maintenance of List of Interchangeable Medicinal Products.
6. Art. 6 Action to be taken by Board where it makes decision under section 5.
7. Art. 7 Scenario 1 — retail pharmacy business has in stock branded product named on prescription and one substitute medicinal product of lower cost.
8. Art. 8 Scenario 2 — retail pharmacy business has in stock branded product named on prescription and 2 or more substitute medicinal products of lower cost.
9. Art. 9 Scenario 3 — retail pharmacy business does not have in stock branded product named on prescription but does have in stock one substitute medicinal product of equal or lower cost.
10. Art. 10 Scenario 4 — retail pharmacy business does not have in stock branded product named on prescription but does have in stock 2 or more substitute medicinal products of equal or lower cost.
11. Art. 11 Action to be taken by pharmacist when presented with prescription for interchangeable medicinal product under common name.
12. Art. 12 No liability of pharmacist, etc., for substitution.
13. Art. 13 Clinical exemptions to substitution.
14. Art. 14 Community pharmacy contractors who participate in relevant schemes.
15. Art. 15 Pharmacist’s discretion not to dispense is preserved.
16. Art. 16 Dispensing of medicinal products under common name where they are not interchangeable medicinal products.
17. Art. 17 Establishment, etc. of Reimbursement List.
18. Art. 18 Maintenance of Reimbursement List.
19. Art. 19 Action to be taken by Executive where it makes decision under section 18.
20. Art. 20 Conditional supply of listed items.
21. Art. 21 Relevant prices of items and listed items.
22. Art. 22 Action to be taken by Executive where it makes decision under section 21.
23. Art. 23 Supply of items not on Reimbursement List.
24. Art. 24 Reference price for listed items which fall within group of interchangeable medicinal products.
25. Art. 25 Action to be taken by Executive where it makes decisions under section 24.
26. Art. 26 Reference prices and patients, etc. who decline or agree substitution.
27. Art. 27 Appeals to High Court against relevant decisions of Board or Executive.
28. Art. 28 Power to specify form of documents.
29. Art. 29 Fees.
30. Art. 30 Amendment of section 59 of Act of 1970.
31. Art. 31 Amendment of section 1 of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001.
32. Art. 32 Amendment of Act of 2007.
33. Art. 33 Amendment of Dentists Act 1985.
34. Art. 34 Amendment of section 57 of Medical Practitioners Act 2007.
35. Art. 35 Amendment of section 55 of Nurses and Midwives Act 2011.
36. Art. 36 Amendment of section 3 of Irish Medicines Board Act 1995.