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1987/808

THE DRUG TARIFF 1987

PuRSUANT to section 99 of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister of Health hereby gives the following direction.

I. Title and commencement 2. Interpretation

PART I

ANALYSIS 14. Payment for practitioners' supply

orders 15. Disputes

GENERAL RuLES AFFECTING PART III

DIRECTION 3. Scope of direction 4. Standards 5. Charges for requirements

PART 11 RuLES FOR PRiCING

6. Calculation of payments 7. Application of Pricing Schedules 8. Computation of selling price 9. Rounding calculations

10. Minimum charges 11. Adjustment of dose volumes

liquid requirements 12. Water 13. Payment for bulk supply orders

of oral

MISCEUANEOUS PROVISIONS 16. Claims on Department I 7. Allergy treatment sets 18. Payment for syringes and needles 19. Payment for plastic syringes 20. Period and quantity of supply for

doctor's prescription 21. Period and quantity of supply for

prescriptions for oral contraceptives 22. Period and quantity of supply for

dentist's prescriptions 23. Original packs, and certain antibiotics 24. Bulk supply orders 25. Practitioner's supply orders 26. wholesale supply orders 27. Revocations and savings

Schedule

DIRECTION

1. Title and cOlllll1encement-(I) This direction may be cited as the Drug Tariff 1987.

(2) This direction shall come into force on the 1 st day of November 1987.

2. Interpretation-( 1) In this direction, unless the context otherwise requires,-

"The Act" means the Social Security Act 1964: "Board" means an Area Health Board under the Area Health Boards

Act 1983 or a Hospital Board under the Hospitals Act 1952:

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"Class B controlled drug" means a Class B controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975:

"Controlled drug" means a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 (other than a controlled drug specified in Part VI of the Third Schedule to that Act):

"Dentist" means a dentist registered under the Dental Act 1963: "The Department" means the Department of Health: "Doctor" means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical

Practitioners Act 1968: "Director-General" means the Director-General of Health: "GST" means goods and services tax under the Goods and Services

Tax Act 1985: "Licensed hospital" means a place or institution that is-

(a) A licensed hospital within the meaning of Part V of the Hospitals Act 1957; or

(b) Recognised and approved as a hospital for the purposes of Part 11 of the Act:

"Month" means a period of 30 consecutive days: "Outpatient", in relation to a requirement, means a rerson who, as

part of treatment at a hospital under the contro of a Board, is prescribed the requirement for consumption or use in the person's home:

"Payment" means payment by the Department in accordance with the terms of this direction:

"Practitioner" means a person who is a doctor or a dentist: "Pricing Schedules" means the official schedules for prescription

pricing issued by the Department from time to time for the purpose of determining tlie prices to be paid to contractors in respect of requirements supplied by them:

"Proprietary preparation" means a requirement that is supplied by reference to a trade mark or trade name or by reference to the name of its manufacturer:

"The regulations" means the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1965":

"Requirement" means a pharmaceutical requirement: "The Schedule", means the Schedule to this direction_

(2) Except as provided in subclause (1) of this clause, expressions defined in section 88 of the Act or regulation 2 of the regulations have the meanings so defined.

PART I GENERAL RULES AFFECrING DIRECTION

S. Scope of direction-(1) Subject to-(a) Subclause (2) of this clause; and (b) The conditions (if any) specified in the second column of Part 11 of

the Schedule opposite the reference to it in the first column of that Part,-

every medicine, drug, and material specified in the first column of Part 11 of the Schedule, and every preparation (having an inert base) of any of

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them, is hereby declared to be included in this direction and to be a requirement for its purposes.

(2) Medicines, drugs, and materials of the following classes are not included in this direction and are not requirements:

(a) Substances, or combinations of substances, ordered for any purpose other than-

(i) Treatment of a patient's medical or dental condition; or (ii) Pregnancy tests; or (iii) The prevention of sexually transmitted disease; or (iv) Contraceptive purposes:

(b) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule that they may be so packed, substances, and combinations of substances, packed under pressure in aerosol cans or other similar devices:

(c) Electrode jellies: (d) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule that they may be so

packed, eye drops packed in single·dose units: (e) Insect repellants and similar preparations: (f) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule that they may be in

such a form, oral preparations in long. acting form: (g) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule that they may be in

such a form, substances or combinations of substances, in lozenge or similar form:

(h) Machine·spread plasters: (i) Preparations prescribed as foods: G) Unless they are deemed or declared to be requirements elsewhere in

this direction, substances, combinations of substances, or articles, in the form of proprietary medicines or proprietary articles:

(k) Shampoos (other than extemporaneously prepared medicated shampoos, or shampoos specified in Part 11 of the Schedule, intended for the treatment of a patient's medical condition):

(I) Toilet preparations: (m) Tooth pastes and powders: (n) Lubricating jellies and catheter lubricants: (0) Sterile diluents for nebulising solutions: (p) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule that they may be in

such a form, substances in a form intended to enable delivery by transdermal diffusion or osmosis or by the insertion of any solid object or substance into the eye cavity:

(q) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule that they may be prescribed for such use, substances prescribed for use as irrigating solutions.

4. Standards-No claim by a contractor for payment in respect of the supply of requirements shall be allowed unless the requirements so supplied-

(a) Comply with the appropriate standards prescribed by regulations for tbe time being in force under the Medicines Act 1981; or

(b) In the absence of any such standards, comply with the appropriate standards for the time being prescribed by the British Pharmacopoeia; or

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(c) In the absence of the standards described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this clause, comply with the appropriate standards for the time being prescribed by the British Pharmaceutical Codex; or

(d) In the absence of the standards described in paragraphs (a) to (c) of this clause, are of a grade and quality not lower than those usually applicable to requirements intended to be used for medical purposes.

5. Charges for requirements-( 1) Subject to subclauses (2) to (4) of this clause, if any requirements are supplied to a patient as pharmaceutical benefits, they shall be so supplied free of charge to the patient, except that, if the requirements are to be delivered to the patient efsewhere than at the pharmacy or other place of business of the contractor, a reasonable charge in accordance with regulation 14 (2) of the regulations may be made for their delivery.

(2) A contractor may charge a customer with-(a) The price of any requirements that are supplied in excess of the

maximum quantities specified in this direction: (b) Any amount by which payment for it is required to be reduced under

clause 6 (1) (b), cfause 18 (3) (b), or clause 21 (l)(b) of this direction:

(c) In the case of a preparation specifically ordered by a practitioner and supplied by the contractor, all or any part of the sum of-

(i) Any amount by which the price the contractor paid for it exceeds 0.82 of its selling price; and

(ii) Half of that amount,-together with any GST payable in respect of the amount charged under subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph.

(3) Where a requirement is dispensed as a pharmaceutical benefit in a pharmacy to which section 46 of the Pharmacy Act 1970 applies, the contractor concerned may charge the customer 30 cents (inclusive of any GST) for it.

(4) Where a requirement is dispensed as a pharmaceutical benefit (otherwise than in a pharmacy to which section 46 of the Pharmacy Act 1970 applies) at any time not within the ordinary hours of shop trading in the locality in which the contractor concerned carries on business, the contractor may charge the customer $1.50 (inclusive of any GST) for it.

PART II RULES FOR PRICING

6. Calculation of payments-( 1) Except in the case of requirements supplied on bulk supply orders or practitioners' supply order, payments for a requirement when dispensed shall be calculated by-

(a) Adding together-(i) The total selling price of the requirement's ingredients; and (ii) The amount specified in the Second Schedule to the Pricing

Schedules for the average container charge; and (iii) If the requirement is dispensed in a container having a

child-resistant closure, the amount specified in that schedule for such a closure; and

(iv) The appropriate professional fee set out in the Third Schedule to the Pricing Schedules; and

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(v) If the requirement is the residue of a quantity of a Class B controlled drug that was prescribed as an initial supply but could not, at the time of initial dispensing, be supplied in that quantity, the appropriate additional fee set out in tliat schedule; and

(vi) The amount (if any) of GST payable in respect of the dispensing of the requirement; and

(b) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, subtracting $1. (2) In calculating payment for a requirement, $1 shall not be

subtracted-(a) If-

(b) If-

(c) If-

(i) The person for whom the requirement is prescribed belongs to a class of person specified in regulation 4 or regulation 5 of the Social Secunty (Medical Fees) Regulations 1986; and

(ii) The prescription concerned is either endorsed to that effect by the jractitioner concerned or (where the contractor concerne is satisfied that the endorsement or lack of endorsement of the practitioner is erroneous) endorsed to that effect and initialled by the contractor; and

(iii) The prescription relates only to requirements prescribed for the person; or

(i) The person for whom the requirement is prescribed does not belong to a class of person specified in regulation 4 or regulation 5 of the Social Security (Medical Fees) Regulations 1986; and

(ii) The contractor concerned is satisfied that the DirectorGeneral has exempted the person from the payment of a flat prescription charge; and

(iii) The prescription relates only to requirements prescribed for the person; or

(i) The person for whom the requirement is prescribed does not belong to a class of person specified in regulation 4 or regulation 5 of the Social Security (Medical Fees) Regulations 1986; and

(ii) The contractor concerned is not satisfied that the DirectorGeneral has exempted the person from the payment of a flat prescription charge; and

(iii) The requirement is contraceptive; and (iv) The prescription concerned relates only to contraceptives

prescribed for the person_

7. Application of Pricing Schedules-Notwithstanding anything in clause 6 of this direction, payments in respect of claims for requirements received by the Department on or after the 16th day after the effective date of any new or revised Pricing Schedules shall be calculated in accordance with those schedules, whatever the date of the claims.

8. Computation of selling price-( 1) The selling price for any requirement listed in the Pricing Schedules dispensed in any guantity shall be the price specified (in the column headed "Prescription Selling Price") in the First Schedule to the Pricing Schedules for tlie requirement when dispensed in that quantity.

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(2) The selling price for any requirement not listed in the Pricing Schedules shall be 122.05 percent of the wholesaler's selling price.

(3) The principal quantities for the calculation of the selling price of requirements shall be 1 gram, 1 millilitre, a specified number, and a specified pack.

( 4) If a requirement can be purchased in quantities other than those specified in subclause (3) of this clause, the selling price shall be calculated in proportion to those quantities.

( 5) Where a liquid requirement is purchased by weight and dispensed by volume, an appropriate adjustment, based on its specific gravity, shall be made in computing its selling price.

(6) Subject to subclause (7) of this clause, all computations concerned with quantities of requirements that are specified in the Schedule shall be made using the metric system.

(7) If a requirement is prescribed or ordered in terms other than those of the metric system, computations shall follow the Apothecaries to Metric Conversion Tables for the time being approved for this purpose by the Minister.

(8) Where a prescription for an injection orders the supply of a dry pack of a requirement together with one or more ampoules or vials of a sterile diluent, payment for the composite items shall be made as for one prescription.

(9) Where, for special reasons concerned with the protection of the patient concerned, a practitioner directs on a prescription that a requirement is to be dispensed daily or at such other regular intervals as the practitioner considers necessary, payment shall be made by adding together the total selling price of the quantity of the requirement dispensed on each occasion, and the appropriate professional fee; but the Department may in its discretion refuse to pay the container allowance in respect of any second or subsequent dispensing.

(10) Where the strength of a requirement is not indicated on a prescription the contractor shall endorse on it the strength supplied; and if the strength supplied is not endorsed payment shall be based on the price of the lowest strength available.

( 11) The selling price of a broken quantity of any requirement dispensed by number whose price is not specified in the Pricing Schedules shall be computed as the appropriate proportion of the selling price of the nearest greater quantity available.

9. Rounding calculations-(I) Calculations for the price of each ingredient shall be rounded to the nearest cent, but exact half cents shall be so expressed. The final half cent shall be rounded upwards to the nearest cent.

(2) Calculations for proportionate prices of requirements (other than ingredients) shall be rounded upwards to the nearest cent.

10. Minimum charges-( 1) The minimum charge for any ingredient in a mixture shall be 1 cent.

(2) Subject to subclause (3) of this clause, the minimum total charge for all ingredients in a mixture shall be 5 cents.

(3) Where the total selling price of all the ingredients in a mixture, including any that are not specified in this direction, exceeds 5 cents,

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payment shall be made for the total value of the ingredients that are specified in this direction rounded upwards to the nearest cent.

(4) For the purposes of this clause the term "mixture" means any prescribed preparation requiring the admixture of 2 or more ingredients, including a vehicle or excipient.

11. Adjustment of dose volullles of oral liquid requireIllents-( I) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, where there is prescribed a dose of' an oral liquid requirement, and-

(a) It is not a multiple of 5 ml; and (b) It is not to be administered by way of a dropper or similar device,

payment shall be made for the quantity of diluent (being diluent that is a requirement) required to make the volume of that dose up to the nearest higher multiple of 5 ml, and of the appropriate professional fee for extemporaneously compounded preparations set out in the Third Schedule to the Pricing Schedules.

(2) No payment shall be made under subclause (1) of this clause unless the contractor concerned has noted on the prescription concerned the quantity and description of the diluent dispensed.

12. Water-(l) Where the term "aqua" is used without qualification in a prescription, it shall be interpreted to mean wholesome drinking water.

(2) Wholesome drinking water shall not be an ingredient bearing a charge on a prescription.

18. Payment for bulk sUfply orders-(I) Subject to subclauses (2) and (3) of this clause, there shal be made for requirements supplied on bulk supply orders the following payments:

(a) For requirements (other than insulin preparations) listed in the Pricing Schedules, the selling price, plus 17.39 percent:

(b) For requirements (other than insulin preparations) not so listed, the price charged to the contractor, plus 43.27 percent:

(c) For insulin preparations, the price charged to the contractor, plus 31.62 percent.

(2) No payment shall be made for containers supplied with requirements ordered on a bulk supply order.

(3) Subject to subclause (4) of this clause, no payment shall be made for a professional fee in respect of requirements so ordered.

(4) There shall be payable in respect of requirements so ordered compounded by the contractor concerned the fee specified in the Third Schedule to the Pricing Schedules, less 10 percent.

14. Payment for practitioners' supply orders-(I) There shall be made for requirements supplied on practitioners' supply orders the following payments:

(a) The total selling price of those requirements: (b) Every time a professional fee is paid in respect of any such

requirement, the average container charge specified in the Second Schedule to the Pricing Schedules:

(c) The appropriate professional fee as set out in the Pricing Schedules. (2) For the purposes of subclause (1) (c) of this clause, the appropriate

professional fee in respect of any requirement dispensed shall be-

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(a) For oral contraceptives, and all other items dispensed by count in packs of sizes listed in the column headed "Prescription Wholesale Price" in the First Schedule to the Pricing Schedules, the class I professional fee specified in those Schedules, in respect of each dispensing of the item concerned regardless of the number of such packs dispensed:

(b) For all requirements (other than oral contraceptives) dispensed by count in packs of sizes not so listed, the class I professional fee as aforesaid in respect of each such pack dispensed:

(c) Subject to paragraph (d) of this subclause, for requirements extemporaneously comEounded by the contractor, the appropriate professional fee specified in the Third Schedule to those Schedules:

(d) For multiple packs of requirements extemporaneously compounded by the contractor on a single occasion, the appropriate professional fee as aforesaid for the first pack, and the class I professional fee as aforesaid for each additional pack dispensed with it.

15. Disputes-A contractor who disagrees with the Department's view in relation to any payment may apply in writing to the Director-General to have the matter reviewed; and in that case-

(a) The Director-General shall refer the application to the appropriate committee for consideration and decision:

(b) The committee shall consider the application and make to the Director-General any decision it thinks fit:

(c) The Director-General shall notify the contractor of the decision: (d) The decision shall be fi.nal and binding on the contractor and the

Director-General.

PART III MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

16. Claims on Department-(I) Pursuant to regulations 14 and 15 of the regulations, a contractor may submit claims for payment in respect of requirements supplied during half-monthly or monthly periods_

(2) Subject to subclause (3) of this clause, where a claim for payment in respect of requirements supplied relates to or includes any prescription or order that was last dispensed more than 3 months before the date on which the claim is first received by the Department, the amount due to the contractor in respect of every such prescription or order so dispensed shall, unless the contractor satisfies the Department that the contractor has a reasonable excuse for the delay in submitting the claim, and subject to any general or special directions given by the Director-General, be reduced by a discount of 20 percent.

(3) No amount shall be reduced under subclause (2) of this clause, where the prescription concerned specifies that requirements are to be supplied for a period not exceeding 3 months and is fultilled in part only and is received by the Department for payment within 6 months of the date of initial dispensing, or within 9 months in the case of a prescription form including an oral contraceptive.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in this clause, any prescription or order that was last dispensed more than one year before the claim is received by the Department shall not be a charge to the Department.

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(5) For the purposes of this clause,-"Half-monthly period" means any period beginning with the 1st day

and ending with the 15th day, or beginning with the 16th day and ending with the last day, of any calendar month:

"Monthly period" means a period beginning with the 1st day and ending with the last day of any calendar month.

17. Allergy treatment sets-(I) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, payment in respect of an allergy treatment set shall be the amount specified from time to time in the Pricing Schedules or the amount approved from time to time by the Director·General.

(2) In the case of a person for the time being approved by the Director· General as the manufacturer of approved allergy treatment sets, the amount payable in respect of any allergy treatment set shall be the amount approved from time to time by the Director·General.

18. Payment for non-disposable syringes and needles-( 1) A contractor may submit claims for payment in respect of non.disposable syringes and non·disposable needles.

(2) Every such claim shall be submitted on a form supplied by the Department and shall specify the patient's name and address, details of the items supplied, and the date of supply.

(3) Payment of any such claim shall be computed by(a) Adding together-

(i) The cost price of the items concerned; and (ii) 26.13 percent of that price; and (iii) The appropriate professional fee; and (iv) The amount (if any) of GST payable in respect of the

provision of those requirements; and (b) Subject to subclause (4) of this clause, subtracting $1. (4) In calculating payment for any such claim, $1 shall not be subtracted

if the person for whom the items concerned are prescribed belongs to a class of person specified in regulation 4 or regulation 5 of the Social Security (Medical Fees) Regulations 1986 and the form concerned is endorsed to that effect by the contractor concerned.

19. Payment for plastic syringes-(I) Payment to a contractor for plastic syringes shall be computed by-

(a) Adding together-(i) The cost price of those syringes; and (ii) 26.13 percent of that price; and (iii) The appropriate professional fee; and (iv) The average container charge; and (v) The amount (if any) of GST payable in respect of the

provision of those syringes; and (b) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, subtracting $1. (2) In calculating payment for plastic syringes, $1 shall not be subtracted

if-(a) The person for whom the syringes are prescribed belongs to a class of

person specified in regulation 4 or regulation 5 of the Social Security (Medical Fees) Regulations 1986 and the prescription concerned is either endorsed to that effect by the practitioner concerned or (where the contractor concerned is satisfied that

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the endorsement or lack of endorsement of the practitioner is erroneous) endorsed to that effect and initialled by the contractor concerned; and

(b) The prescription relates only to requirements prescribed for that person.

20. Period and quantity of supply for doctor's prescriptions-In the case of a prescription for a requirement (other than an oral contraceptive) written by a doctor, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) Payment may be made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 3 months, or, in the case of a Class B controlled drug, a quantity sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 1 month:

(b) Where the doctor has prescribed a quantity sufficient to provide treatment for more than 1 month, the requirement shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless-

(i) The doctor endorses the prescription with the quantity to be dispensed on one or more occasions or with a statement of the period for which one or more lots is to be dispensed; or

(ii) The contractor or the patient endorses the back of the prescription with a statement of the special reasons why a greater quantity is required to be dispensed:

(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the doctor prescribes a requirement specified in the Schedule as being subject to "antibiotic restriction", payment may be made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 4 days and, where the prescription specifies a repeat, for only such further amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for one further period not exceeding 4 days unless the doctor endorses the prescription with the words "extended supply", and specifies in it the quantity required or the period for which treatment is required, in which case payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed if that quantity does not exceed that necessary to provide treatment for a period of 3 months; but where a patient is receiving an extended supply of such a requirement, that requirement shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless-

(i) The doctor endorses the prescription with the quantity to be dispensed on one or more occasions or with a statement of the period for which one or more lots is to be dispensed; or

(ii) The contractor or the patient endorses the prescription with a statement of the special reasons why a greater quantity is required to be dispensed:

(d) Any prescription that is not presented to a contractor for dispensing within 7 days of its being written in the case of a Class B controlled drug, or within 3 months of its being written in any other case, shall cease to be a charge to the Department:

(e) A repeat on a prescription that remains unfulfilled after-(i) Three months from the date of first dispensing in the case of

a prescription for a pharmaceutical requirement for a total supply of from 1 to 3 months; or

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(ii) One month from the date of first dispensing in any other case-shall cease to be a charge to the Department; but the contractor concerned may submit a claim for the part fulfihnent of the total quantity ordered in respect of the part that is due for payment and payment may be made accordingly.

21. Period and quantity of supply for prescriptions for oral contraceptives-In the case of a prescription for a requirement that is an oral contraceptive, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) The doctor concerned shall specify in the prescription the period of treatment for which the requirement is to be supplied (not exceeding 6 months) and payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed:

(b) Subject to paragraph (d) of this clause, where a period not exceeding 3 months has so been specified, the requirement shall be dispensed-

(i) In lots specified in the prescription; or (ii) Where no lots are so specified, in one lot:

(c) Subject to paragraph (d) of this clause where a period exceeding 3 months or more has so been specified, the requirement shall be dispensed-

(1) Where the doctor has endorsed the prescription with a direction that it be so dispensed, in such lots as may be specified in the direction; or

(ii) Where the doctor has not so endorsed the prescription, in one lot sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months and one further lot:

(d) Where a contractor is satisfied that there are exceptional reasons for the requirement to be supplied in lots larger than those specified in the prescription or, as the case may be, larger than those sufficient to provide treatment for periods of 3 months, and endorses the prescription to that effect, the requirement shall be dispensed in such lots as the contractor thinks fit:

(e) Where the prescription specifies a period of treatment for which the requirement is to be supplied that exceeds 3 months, a repeat on the prescription that remains unfulfilled-

(i) Where the first lot was sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months, after 4 months; and

(ii) Where the first lot was not sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months, after 6 months-from the date of first dispensing shall cease to be a charge to the Department; but the contractor concerned may submit a claim for the part fulfilment of the total quantity ordered in respect of the part that is due for payment, and payment may be made accordingly.

22. Period and quantity of supply for dentist's prescriptions-In the case of a prescription for a requirement written by a dentist, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) Payment may be made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for-

(i) A period not exceeding 5 days, where the requirement is a controlled drug; and

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(ii) A period not exceeding 5 days and, where the prescription specifies a repeat, for only such further amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for one further period not exceeding 5 days, in every other case:

(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the dentist prescribes a requirement specified in the Schedule as being subject to "antibiotic restriction", payment may be made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 4 days and, where the prescription specifies a repeat, for only such further amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for one further period not exceeding 4 days:

(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where, in the opinion of the dentist a patient needs extended treatment with sodium fluoride for a period of 1 month or more, a supply of sodium fluoride, not exceeding a quantity sufficient to provide that patient with treatment for a specified period of from 1 to 3 months, may be made on anyone prescription; and, if the dentist specifies on it the period for which that requirement is to be supplied, payment shall be made in respect of a claim made accordingly; but where a patient is receiving an extended supply of sodium fluoride, it shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless-

(i) The dentist endorses the prescription with a statement of the period for which each lot is to be dispensed; or

(ii) The contractor or the patient endorses the back of the prescription with a statement of the special reasons why a quantity greater or less than a monthly lot is required to be dispensed:

(d) Any prescription that is not presented to the contractor for dispensing within 7 days of its being written in the case of a Class B controlled drug, or 3 months of its being written in any other case, shall cease to be a charge to the Department:

(e) A repeat on a prescription that remains unfulfilled after 3 months from the date of first dispensing of any requirement named in the prescription in the case of a prescription for sodium fluoride, or after 1 month in any other case, shall cease to be a charge to the Department; but the contractor concerned may submit a claim for the part fulfilment of the total quantity ordered in respect of the part that is due for payment, and payment shall be made accordingly.

28. Original packs, and certain antibiotics-(1) Notwithstanding clauses 20 and 22 of this direction, if a practitioner orders a requirement that is packed in a special container from which it is not practicable to dispense lesser amounts, or in a collapsible tube, every reference in those clauses to an amount for which payment may be made shall be deemed to be a reference-

(a) Where an amount by weight or volume of the requirement is specified in the prescription, to the smallest container of the requirement, or the smallest number of containers of the requirement, sufficient to provide that amount; and

(b) In every other case, to the amount contained in the smallest container of the requirement that is manufactured in or imported into New Zealand.

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(2) If a practitioner orders, in an amount that does not coincide with the amount of a standard pack or any number of standard packs a requirement that is the liquid oral form of an antibiotic that requires the addition of a diluent at the time of dispensing, payment may be made for a standard pack or a combination of standard packs (instead of for the quantity prescribed in accordance with clause 20 or clause 22 of this direction, as the case may be) only if the contractor satisfies the Department that the contractor has not been able to dispense the balance of the pack or packs.

24. Bulk supply orders-(I) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, the licensee or manager of a licensed hospital or the matron or other person in charge of an institution approved by the Director-General may obtain, pursuant to a bulk supply order on a form to be supplied by the Department, such requirements as are expected to be required for the treatment of persons who are under medicaf or dental supervision in the hospital or institution; but-

(a) Payment shall not be made for any requirement that is specifically restricted in the Schedule:

(b) The licensee or manager or, as the case may be, the matron or other person, may be called upon to justifY the amount ordered:

(c) No Class B controlled drug shall be obtained on a bulk supply order by any institution that is not a licensed hospital:

(d) No item specified in Part I of the First Schedule to the Medicines Regulations 1984 shall be obtained on a bulk supply order by any institution that is not a licensed hospital, unless-

(i) A registered general nurse, within the meaning of the Nurses Act 1977, is employed by the institution; and

(ii) The order is supported by a written requisition signed by a practitioner.

(2) Payment shall be made to the contractor on the presentation of the appropriate copy of a bulk supply order form (or, in the case of a bulk supply of a Class B controlled drug or for buprenorphine hydrochloride, a special bulk supply order form) supplied by the Department that-

(a) Specifies the requirements that have been supplied; and (b) Has endorsed on it a receipt, signed and dated by the licensee or

manager or, as the case may be, the matron or other person, indicating that the requirements have been received.

(3) The quantities ordered on a bulk supply order shall be limited to those quantities that are sufficient to meet reasonable needs for a period not exceeding 1 month, after taking into account stock on hand at the time of preparing the requisition.

(4) The Minister may at any time, by notice given in such manner as the Minister thinks proper, declare that any hospital or other approved institution shall not be entitled to obtain supplies of requirements under this clause; and on the making of any such declaration this clause shall cease to apply with respect to that hospital or other approved institution. Any such notice may in like manner be revoked.

25. Practitioner's supply orders-(l) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, a practitioner may obtain, pursuant to a practitioner's supply order, such requirements as the practitioner expects to be required for personal admiriistration to patients under the practitioner's care, if the

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quantities ordered are reasonable for up to 1 month's supply in the conditions obtaffiing in the practitioner's practice; but no payment will be made for any requirement that is specifically restricted in the Schedule. The practitioner may be called upon to justity the amounts ordered.

(2) Payment shall be made to the contractor on the presentation of the practitioner's supply order if at the time of supply it

(a) Is signed personally by the practitioner; and (b) Is dated in the practitioner's own handwriting; and (c) Sets out the address of the practitioner; and (d) Sets out the requirements (not being requirements that may only be

supplied by a Board) that the practitioner requires at the time. Any order for a Class B controlled drug or for buprenorphine hydrochloride shall be written on a form to be supplied by the Department.

(3) A practitioner may, except in exceptional circumstances, order only those requirements that the practitioner requires to administer personally to a patient or requires for emergency use until a supply can be obtained by the patient pursuant to a prescription.

(4) The Minister may at any time, on the recommendation of the appropriate committee appointed under section 121 of the Act, by notice given in such manner as the Minister thinks proper, declare that any practitioner whose name is specified in the notice shall not be entitled to obtain supplies of requirements under this clause; and on the making of any such declaration this clause shall cease to apply with respect to that practitioner. Any such notice may in like manner be revoked.

26. Wholesale supply orders-(1) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, but subject to subclause (4) of this clause, a practitioner may obtain, pursuant to a wholesale supply order on a form to be supplied by the Department, any requirement specified in the Schedule as being availabfe on such an order.

(2) Payment shall be made to the wholesaler or distributor on the presentation of the appropriate copy of the order form-

(a) Signed and dated by the practitioner; and (b) Signed and dated by a person acting on behalf of the wholesaler or

distributor concerned, at the time the pharmaceutical requirements specified on the form are supplied.

(3) Payment for a requirement obtained on a wholesale supply order shill be made at a rate not exceeding the wholesaler's selling price agreed by the Department, and in respect of a quantity no greater than is sufficient to meet the reasonable needs of the practitioner concerned (assessed in the light of stock in hand when the order is made) for a month.

(4) The Minister may at any time, on the recommendation of the appropriate committee, by notice in writing given in such manner as the Minister thinks fit, declare that subclause (1) of this clause no longer applies to a specified practitioner; and in that case, until that notice is in like manner revoked, that subclause shall not apply to that practitioner.

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27. Revocations and savings-(I) The Drug Tariff 1984* and the Drug Tariff 1984, Amendment No. 11 t are hereby consequentially revoked.

(2) Without limiting the provisions ofthe Acts Interpretation Act 1924, it is hereby declared that the revocation of any provision by this direction shall not affect any document made or anything whatsoever done under the provision so revoked or any corresponding former provision, and every such document or thing, so far as it is subsisting or in force at the time of the revocation and could have been made or done under this direction, shall continue and have effect as if it had been made or done under the corresponding provision of this direction and as if that provision had been in force when the document was made or the thing was done.

·S.R 1984/180 tS.R 1987/183

1987/303 Drug Tariff 19B7

SCHEDULE

LIST OF REQUIREMENTS FOR WHICH PAYMENT IS ALLOWED OR

CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED

PARTI--DEFINITIONS

1359

1. "Antibiotic restriction" means that payment for prescriptions for oral forms of the requirement shall not be made unless it is dispensed in accordance with clause 20 (b) or clause 22 (b) of this direction (as the case requires).

2. "Approved type" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is of a type approved by the Director·General for the purposes of this direction.

3. "Diabetic supplies" means that payment shall not be made unless there is produced to the contractor a certificate that gives the name, address, and age of the patient and that-

(a) Is signed by a medical practitioner; and (b) Is dated less than 2 years previously; and (c) States that the patient is receiving insulin therapy.

4. "Diabetic syringes" means that payment may be made for not more than 26 plastic syringes with attached needles as a single supply if the prescription is written on the same prescription form as a prescription for 3 months supply of insulin, or as a single supply, for not more than 2 plastic syringes with attached needle for every week's supply of insulin prescribed if the prescription for insulin calls for less than 3 months supply.

5. "Hospital Pharmacy" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board to an outpatient on the prescription of a practitioner.

6. "Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board

(a) To an outpatient; and (b) On the prescription of a specialist in dermatology.

7. "Hospital Pharmacy-specialist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board-

(a) To an outpatient; and (b) On the prescription of a specialist,--

or if the treatment of an outpatient with the requirement has been recommended by a specialist, on the prescription of a practitioner endorsed with the woras "recommended by [Name if speCialist and year if authorisation]" written in the practitioner's own handwriting or signed or initialled by the practitioner.

A recommendation shall be valid until the expiration of the second year following the year of authorisation.

For the purposes of this definition it shall not make any difference whether the specialist is employed by the Board or not.

8. "In combination" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is included in a prescription in combination with other requirements that are specified in Part II of the Schedule as being available otherwise than "in combination", and then only to the extent specified.

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9. "Maternity hospital" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied pursuant to a bulk supply order to a maternity hospital licensed under the Hospitals Act 1957.

10. "Midwifery order" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied in the specified quantity to a patient as an authorised midwifery requirement pursuant to a midwifery order signed by the hospital licensee or manager of a private hospital within the meaning of the Hospitals Act 1957, or by a midwife or maternity nurse registered under the Nurses Act 1977, as the case may be.

11. "Month restriction" means that payment shall not be made unless(a) The .::rirement is dispensed on the prescription of a practitioner;

(b) The quantity prescribed on anyone prescription form does not exceed the quantity sufficient for a month s treatment; inclusive of repeats.

12. "Retail pharmacy-radiotherapist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied on a prescription signed by a specialist in radiotherapy, or, in the case of treatment recommended by a specialist in radiotherapy, a prescription signed by a practitioner and endorsed with the words "recommended by [Name rif speCialist and year rif authorisation]" written in the practitioner's own handwriting or signed or initialled by the practitioner.


13. "Retail Pharmacy-specialist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied on a prescription, or practitioner'S supply order, signed by a specialist, or, in the case of treatment recommended by a specialist, a prescription or practitioner's supply order signed by a practitioner and endorsed with the words "recommended by [Name rif speCialist and year rif authorisation]" written in the practitioner's own handwriting or signed or initialled by the practitioner.


14. "Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription" means that payment shall not be made unless the re<Juirement is supplied on a prescription, or practitioner's supply order, SIgned by a specialist.

15. "Wholesale supply order" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied pursuant to a wholesale supply order in accordance with clause 26 of this direction.

16. Only those medical practitioners who are "specialists" within the meaning of section 88 of the Act, or who are specialists for the purposes of any determination issued under section 52 of the Hospitals Act 1957, shall be specialists for the purposes of this Schedule, and then only to the extent of the speciality in respect of which they are registered or recognised, as the case may require.

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Requirements

Acacia

PART 11

Availability

Acebutolol hydrochloride Acebutolol hydrochloride with

hydrochlorothiazide tablets Acetazolamide and its salts Acetazolamide long acting capsules Acetic acid Acetic acid with boric acid, hydroxyquinoline

sulphate and ricinoleic acid vaginal jelly Acetone

Acetylcholine chloride eye drops Acyclovir eye ointment Acyclovir skin cream

Acyclovir tablets 200 mg Acriflavine Adrenaline not exceeding a strength of 0.5

percent with guanethidine sulphate not exceeding a strength of 3 percent as eye drops

Adrenaline eye drops Adrenaline acid tartrate Adrenaline acid tartrate aerosol inhaler Adrenaline hydrochloride Adrenaline hydrochloride eye drops Alclometasone dipropionate cream and ointment Alfacalcidol capsules and oral drops Alginic acid with ma~eshun trisilicate, aluminium

hydroxide gel, dned, and sodium bicarbonate infant powder

Alginic acid with magnesium trisilicate, aluminium hydroxide gel, dried, and sodium bicarbonate tablets

Alkaline compoWld tablets (milk dextrin type) Allantoin with sulphur, menthol, phenol and coal

tar solution cream Allergy treatment sets

Allopurinol tablets Almond oil Aloxiprin tablets Alprenolol benzoate long.acting tablets and tablets Alprenolol hydrochloride .. Alprenolol hydrochloride long acting tablets Alseroxylon Alum Alum and zinc dusting powder for infants BPC

1968 Aluminium acetate solution BPC 1973 Aluminium chloride Aluminium powder

Conditions

In combination

Not if ordered on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order

Retail Pharmacy-specialist (a) Not on a bulk supply order, a

practitioner's supp1y order, or a wholesale supply order

(b) Not for any quantity exceeding 4 g, inclusive of any repeat, per prescription form

Hospital Pharmacy-specialist

Retail Pharmacy-specialist




Approved type

Only if prepared and supplied by a manufacturer approved by the Director·General for the purposes of this direction

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PART I1-continued Availability-continued

Requirements

Aluminium hydroxide and belladonna mixture, BPC

Aluminium hydroxide gel Aluminium hydroxide gel, dried Aluminium hydroxide gel with kaolin mixture Aluminium hydroxide gel with magnesium

hydroxide mixture Aluminium hydroxide gel with magnesium

hydroxide and activated dimethicone mixture and tablets

Aluminium hydroxide gel, dried, with magnesium hydroxide tablets

Aluminium hydroxide gel dried, with magnesium trisilicate, magnesium hydroxide and dimethicone tablets

Aluminium paste, compound BPC Aluminium sulphate Amantadine hydrochloride Amaranth solution Amiloride hydrochloride tablets Amiloride hydrochloride with hydrochlorothiazide Aminacrine hydrochloride Aminobenzoic acid Aminocaproic acid Aminoglutethimide tablets Aminophylline .. Amiodarone hydrochloride injection and tablets Amitriptyline hydrochloride Amitriptyline pamoate syrup .. Ammonia and ipecacuanha mixture BP Ammonia solution, dilute BP Ammonia solution, strong BP Ammonia spirit, aromatic BP Ammonium acetate solution, strong BP Ammonium bicarbonate Ammonium chloride Ammonium chloride mixture BP Ammonium chloride and morphine mixture BP Amoxapine tablets . . . . . . Amoxycillin with potassium clavulanate syrup and

tablets Amoxycillin sodium only as injection Amoxycillin trihydrate

Amphetamine sulphate Amphotericin Amphotericin lozenges Amphotericin injection Ampicillin sodium only as injection Amyl nitrite .. Amylobarbitone and its sodium salt Amylobarbitone sodium injection Amylobarbitone sodium with quinalbarbitone

sodium capsules Anise water Apomorphine hydrochloride Ascorbic acid

Conditions


Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist


Retail Pharmacy-specialist Antibiotic restriction

(a) Antibiotic restriction (b) Not in any topical application Hospital Pharmacy


Month restriction

Month restriction

In combination

Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 100 mg per dose

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SCHEDULE-continued

PART II-continued

Availability-continued

Requirements

Aprotinin Aqueous cream BP Aspirin

Aspirin tablets 300 mg and 650 mg Aspirin long-acting tablets 650 mg Aspirin soluble tablets 300 mg Aspirin with codeine phosphate tablets Aspirin 250 mg with paracetamol 250 mg ru1d

codeine phosphate 8 mg tablets Aspirin, soluble, with codeine phosphate tablets Atenolol Atenolol with chlorthalidone tablets Atropine methonitrate Atropine sulphate Atropine sulphate single dose eye drops Auranofin tablets Azathioprine Bacitracin and its salts with neomycin sulphate

and polymyxin B sulphate proprietary preparations

Baclofea tablets Bacitracin and its salts with neomycin sulphate in

proprietary preparations Barbitone sodium Beclamide Beclomethasone dipropionate nasal spray and

aerosol inhaler for nasal use Beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol for oral use Beclomethasone dipropionate capsules for oral

inhalation and powder for oral inhalation Beeswax, white Beeswax, yellow Belladonna liquid extract BPC Belladonna tincture BP Belladonna and ephedrine mixture for infants

BPC Belladonna and ipecacuanha mixture for infants

BPC Belladonna mixture for infants BPC Bendrofluazide Benserazide hydrochloride with levodopa capsules

and tablets Bentonite Benzalkonium chloride tincture Benzathine penicillin injection Benzhexol hydrochloride Benzoic acid Benzoic acid solution BP Benzoic acid ointment, compound BP Benzoin inhalation BP Benzoin tincture, BPC Benzoin tincture, compound, BP Benzoyl peroxide Benzoyl peroxide lotion with or without sulphur Benztropine mesylate injection

Conditions


(a) In combination (b) Only in extemporaneously

compounded oral liquid mixtures

Approved type

Only on a practitioner's supply order Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist


Month restriction

Only on a practitioner's supply order

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PART 11 -continued Availability-continued

Requirements

Benztropine mesylate tablets Benzydamine hydrochloride solution Benzyl benzoate Benzyl benzoate application, BP Benzylpenicillin and its salts

Benzylpenicillin sodium injection and eye drops Benzylpenicillin and its salts, with or without

procaine penicillin, benethamine penicillin, or benzathine penicillin, for injection

Beta-carotene with canthaxanthin capsules Betahistine hydrochloride tablets Betamethasone and its salts and esters, with or

without neomycin sulphate when supplied in the form of proprietary eye preparations

Betamethasone and its salts and esters, with or without neomycin sulphate when supplied in the form of proprietary ear preparations

Betamethasone with betamethasone sodium phosphate, intra-articular injection

Betamethasone dipropionate cream, ointment and scalp lotion

Betamethasone sodium phosphate injection Betamethasone sodium phosphate as tablets Betamethasone sodium phosphate with or without

naphazoline nitrate nasal preparations Betamethasone valerate with or without

chlonetracycline hydrochloride or clioqWnol or neomycin sulphate or gentamicin sulphate as skin preparations

Betamethasone valerate scalp lotion Betaxolol hydrochloride eye drops Bethanidine sulphate __ Bezafibrate tablets Biperiden lactate injection Bismuth carbonate Bismuth powder, compound BP Bismuth subgallate Bismuth subgallate, compound suppositories with

hydrocortisone Bismuth subgallate suppositiories, compound BP Bismuth subgallate, compound, ointment, and

suppositories Bismuth subnitrate Bismuth subnitrate with frangula bark,

magnesium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate tabJets

Black. currant syrup BP Borax Boric acid Brilliant green Brilliant green and crystal violet paint BP Bromazepam tablets _ _ _ _ Bromocriptine mesylate capsules and tablets Budesonide aerosol inhaler for nasal use Budesonide aerosol inhaler for oral use Buffered cream BP

Conditions

Retail Pharmacy-radiotherapist

Not if in any topical application, unless it is separately specified in this Pan of the Schedule

Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist




Approved type

Approved type

Month restriction

In combination

Month restriction

1987/303 Drug Tariff 1987

SCHEDULE-continued

PART II-continued Availability-continued

Requirements

Bumetanide injection and tablets Buprenorphine hydrochloride injection and

tablets Busulphan Butobarbitone Cade oil Caffeine Caffeine iodide elixir BPC 1973 Caffeine with sodium iodide Calamine Calamine colloidal Calamine application. compound BPC Calamine cream aqueous BP Calamine lotion BP . Calamine lotion. oily BP Calamine ointment BP Calamine and coal tar ointment BP Calciferol Calcitonin injection Calcitriol capsules . . . . Calcium with vitamin D tablets BPC Calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate mixture for infants. compound

BPC 1973 Calcium carbonate powder. compound BPC Calcium carbonate tablets Calcium carbonate with aminoacetic acid Calcium carbonate with aminoacetic acid and

dimethicone oral liquid and tablets Calcium chloride Calcium folinate Calcium gluconate Calcium gluconate with cafciferol tablets Calcium glucono-galacto-gluconate Calcium hydroxide .. Calcium lactate Calcium lactate-gluconate tablets Calcium polystyrene sulphonate Calcium sodium lactate Camphor spirit BPC 1959 Camphor water BPC 1968 Capreomycin injection

Conditions

Retail Pharmacy-specialist Month restriction

Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist




1365

Capsules. empty gelatin

Captopril tablets

Only if dispensed with a requirement specified in this Part of the Schedule

Caramel Caraway oil Caraway water Carbachol Carbachol eye drops Carbamazepine syrup and tablets Carbaryl shampoo Carbenoxolone sodium tablets Carbidopa with levodopa tablets Carbimazole .. Cardamom tincture. aromatic BP Cardamon tincture. compound BP Castor oil

In combination

In combination



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PART II-continued


Requirements

Castor oil single dose eye drops Castor oil with resorcinol, salicylic acid and

undecylenic alkanolamide scalp solution Catechu tincture BP Cefaclor monohydrate capsules

Cefaclor monohydrate oral suspension Cefamandole nafate injection Cefoxitin sodium injection Ceftriaxone sodium injection Cefuroxime sodium injection Cephalexin monohydrate

Cephalothin sodium injection Cephazolin sodium Cephadrine

Cetomacrogol 1000 Cetomacrogol cream BP Cetomacrogol emulsifYing ointment BP Cetomacrogol emulsilYing wax BP Cetostearyl alcohol Cetrimide powder

Cetrimide with chlorhexidine gluconate cream Cetyl, alcohol Chalk Chalk mixture for infants, BP Chalk and opium mixture, aromatic BP Charcoal Chloral elixir for infants BP Chloral hydrate

Chloral hydrate capsules Chloral mixture BP Chloral syrup B.P.C. 1968 Chlorambucil Chloramphenicol, its salts and esters

Chloramphenicol ear drops Chloramphenicol ear insufflation Chloramphenicol eye drops Chloramphenicol eye ointment Chloramphenicol single dose eye drops .. Chloramphenicol with hydrocortisone and its salts

as eye preparations Chloramphenicol with polymyxin B sulphate

proprietory ear drops, eye drops, eye ointment Chlorbutol . . . . . . . .

Conditions


(a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Anubiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (a) Hosp'ital Pharmacy (b) Antibiotic restriction Hospital Pharmacy Hospital Pharmacy (a) Hosp'ital Pharmacy (b) Antibiotic restriction

Only on a prescription for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo

Maternity hospital

Month restriction (a) Month restriction (b) Not if in any proprietary liquid oral

form, unless it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule

Month restriction Month restriction Month restriction Retail Pharmacy-specialist Subject to-(a) Antibiotic restriction; and (b) Retail Pharmacy specialist,-

unless prescribed as an ingredient of a chloramphenicol topical preparation separately specified in this Part of the Schedule

Only on a practitioner's supply order Retail Pharmacy-specialist

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Requirements

Chlordiazepoxide and its hydrochloride Chlorhexidine diacetate powder

Chlorhexidine gluconate

Chlorhexidine gluconate obstetric cream

Chlorhexidine gluconate solution 5 percent

Chlorinated lime Chlorinated lime and boric acid solution BP Chlorinated soda solution, surgical BPC Chlormethiazole and its esters Chlormethiazole edisyiate intravenous infusion Chlorocresol Chloroform

Chloroform and morphine tincture BP Chloroform spirit BP Chloroform water BP Chloroquine phosphate Chloroquine sulphate Chlorothiazide Chlorpromazine and its salts and esters Chlorprothixene Chlorquinadol Chlortetracycline eye ointment Chlortetracycline suppositories,

extemporaneously prepared Chlortetracycline hydrochloride proprietary

cream, proprietary ointment and proprietary topical powder

Chlortetracycline hydrochloride preparations with or without pharmaceutical requirements extemporaneously prepared

Chlorthalidone Cholestyramine resin

topical other when

Choline salicriate with cetalkonium chloride adhesive ge

Choline theophyllinate Choline theophyllinate with guaiaphenesin elixir Chorionic gonadotrophin Chymotrypsin injection Cimetidine injection

Conditions

Month restriction Only on a prescription for an

extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo

Only-(a) When prescnbed (alone or in

combination) for renal dialysis in the home of the patient concerned; or

(b) On a prescription for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or sliampoo

Only-(a) Maternity hospital; or (b) Midwifery order (500 ml)

Only-ta) Maternity hospital; or (b) Midwifery order (100 ml)

Month restriction

Only in combination for topical application or as an ingredient in a preparation for oral adririnistration

In combination



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PART II-continued


Cimetidine tablets

Cinnamon oil Cinnamon water Citric acid Citronella oil

Requirements

Clindamycin hydrochloride capsules

Clindamycin pahnitate-hydrochloride syrup

Clindamycin phosphate only as an injection Clindamycin phosphate as a proprietary topical

solution or lotion Clioquinol Clobazam tablets Clobetasol propionate cream, ointment, and scalp

lotion Clobetasone butyrate cream and ointment Clobetasone butyrate with or without nemocyin

sulphate as eye drops Clofazimine Clofibrate Clomiphene citrate tablets

Clomipramine hydrochloride tablets Clonazepam Clonidine transdermal delivery system Clonidine hydrochloride tablets and injection Clopamide with pindolol tablets Clotrimazole skin cream, solution, vaginal cream

ancj vaginal tablets Clove oil Cloxacillin sodium only as an injection Coal tar Coal tar, prepared BPC Coal tar paint BP Coal tar paste BP Coal tar solution BP Coal tar and salicylic acid ointment BP Coal tar and zinc ointment BP Cocoa Coconut oil Codeine phosphate Codeine linctus BP Codeine linctus, diabetic BPC Codeine linctus for infants BPC Codeine phosphate syrup BPC Co-dergocrine mesylate tablets Cod-liver oil Cod-liver oil emulsion BPC 1959 Coffee, prepared Colchicine Colchicum extract, liquid BP Colchicum and sodium salicylate mixture,

BPC 1973 Colchicum tincture BP 1973

Conditions

(a) Only on a prescription with a daily dose not exceeding 400 mg; or

(b) Month restriction In combination In combination

In combination (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Antibiotic restriction (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Antibiotic restriction Retail Pharmacy-specialist



Retail Pharmacy-specialist (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only on a prescription for a female

patient Retail Pharmacy-specialist

In combination In combination

In combination

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Requirements

Colestipol hydrochloride Colistin and its salts and esters Colistin sulphate with neomycin sulphate and

hydrocortisone acetate eardrops Collodion, flexible Colophony Contraceptives, caps

Contraceptives, condoms . . . . Contraceptives, condoms with a spermicidal agent Contraceptives, diaphragms Contraceptives, intra·uterine devices

Contraceptives, spermicidal agents (together with applicator when specified)

Copper diagnostic tablets

Copper sulphate . . . . Copper and zinc sulphates lotion BPC Corticotrophin gelatin injection Cortisone acetate tablets Co·trimoxazole Cresol Crotamiton Crystal violet Cyclandelate Cyclizine, its salts and esters Cyclopenthiazide Cycopentolate hydrochloride eye drops

Cyclopentolate hydrochloride single dose eyedrops

Cyclophosphamide Cytarabine Danazol capsules Dantrolene sodium capsules Dapsone Dapsone with pyrimethamine as tablets Debrisoquine sulphate tablets .. Deoxycortone and its esters Desferrioxamine mesylate Desipramine hydrochloride .. Desmopressin nasal drops .. Desogestrel with ethinyloestradiol tablets Dettol solution

Dexamethasone and its salts and esters, except preparations listed elsewhere in this direction

Dexamethasone as proprietary eye preparations Dexamethasone with framycetin and gramicidin

proprietary eye preparations Dexamethasone with framycetin and gramicidin

proprietary ear preparations Dexamethasone with neomycin sulphate and

polymyxin B sulphate as propnetary eye preparations

Dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection

Conditions

Retail Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Phannacy-specialist

(a) Approved type (b) Only on a wholesale supply order Approved type Approved type Approved type (a) Approved type (b) Only on a wholesale supply order Approved type

(a) Only in 36 tablet pack or packs (b) Not available on a bulk supply order

Antibiotic restriction

Only if not exceeding 1 percent strength

Only it not exceeding 1 percent strength, and on a practitioners supply order

Retail Pharmacy -specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Phannacy-specialist Retail Phannacy -specialist

Hospital Phannacy Hospital Phannacy Retail Phannacy-specialist

(a) Maternity hospital; or (b) Midwifery order (100 ml) Retail Pharmacy-specialist

Retail Phannacy -specialist Retail Phannacy -specialist


Only on a wholesale supply order

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PART II-continued AVailability-continued

Requirements

Dexamphetamine sulphate Dextromoramide tartrate ~. ,."tropropoxyphene napsylate as capsules Dextropropoxyphene hydrochloride with

paracetamol capsules Dextropropoxyphene napsylate with paracetamol

tablets Dextrose Dextrose. anhydrous as an ingredient of an

injection Dextrose. injection

Diazepam capsules, syrup and tablets Diazepam injection

Diazepam rectal tubes and suppositories Dibromopropamidine isethionate Didofenac sodium injection, long.acting capsules,

long· acting tablets, suppositories and tablets Dicophane.. .. .. .. Dicophane application BPC 1973 Dicophane dusting·powder BPC 1973 Dicydomine hydrochloride long·acting tablets,

tablets and syrup Dienoestrol Dienoestrol cream, together with applicator when

specified Diethylcarbamazine citrate Diflucortolone valerate Diflucortolone valerate with chlorquinaldol cream Diflunisal tablets Digoxin Dihydroergotamine mesylate Dihydrotachysterol Di.iodohydroxyquinoline compound vaginal

tablets Dill water Diltiazem hydrochloride tablets Dimenhydrinate Dimercaprol Dimethicone Dimethicone cream BPC Dimethicone creams Diphemanil methylsulphate powder

Diphenoxylate hydrochloride with atropine sulphate only as tablets

Dipivefrin hydrochloride eye drops in packs of 1.5ml

Dipotassium hydrogen phosphate

Conditions

Hospital Pharmacy

In combination

Only-(a) In containers not exceeding

50 ml capacity (b) If prescribed in respect of

nypoglycaemia Month restriction Only if· ordered otherwise than for

anaesthetic procedures on a practitioners supply order form of a doctor

Approved type Only if prescribed for an amputee with

an artificial limb, or for a paraplegic patient on a prescription endorsed accordingly


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PART II-continued


Requirements

Dipyridamole injection tablets and long-acting capsules

Disopyramide and its phosphate as capsules or long-acting tablets

Disopyramide phosphate injection Dispersa wax Distigmine bromide Disulfiram Dithranol

Dithranol paste, strong BPC Dithranol paste, weak BPC Domperidone tablets Dothiepin hydrochloride Doxepin hydrochloride capsules and tablets Doxycycline hydrochloride capsules 100 mg,

tablets 100 mg and injection Drostanolone propionate Dydrogesterone tablets Econazole foaming solution Econazole nitrate Ecothiophate iodide Edrophonium chloride Electrolyte powder, for solution for oral use as

approved by the Director-General Electrolyte solution for oral use (e.g., Darrow's

solution non· sterile; Hartmann's solution, non· sterile)

Emepronium carrageenate tablets Emetine hydrochloride EmulsifYing wax BP EmulsifYing ointment BP Enalapril maleate tablets Ephedrine hydrochloride Ephedrine hydrochloride elixir BP Ephedrine nasal drops BPC Ergometrine and its salts Ergot, prepared Ergotamine tartrate Ergotamine tartrate aerosol inhaler Ergotamine tartrate with belladonna, caffeine and

allylbarbituric acid suppositories Ergotamine tartrate with belladonna and

phenobarbitone tablets and long-acting tablets Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine tablets .. Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine and cyclizine

hydrochloride Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine citrate and

diphenhydramine hydrochloride Erythromycin and its salts and esters

Erythromycin eye drops Ethacrynic acid Ethambutol

Conditions




Only in extemporaneously compounded preparations, unless separately specified in this Part of the Schedule


Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist


According to a prescribed formula, or by title


(a) Antibiotic restriction (b) Not in any topical application unless

it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule


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Requirements

Ethambutol with isoniazid tablets Ethamivan Ethanol 90 percent Ethanol for injection Ethanolamine Ether, solvent BPC

Ethinyloestradiol Ethinyloestradiol with levonorgestrel Ethinyloestradiol with Iynoestrenol tablets Ethinyloestradiol with methyltestosterone tablets Ethinyloestradiol with norethisterone Ethisterone Ethosuximide Ethylestrenol Ethylnoradrenaline hydrochloride injection Ethynodiol diacetate tablets Ethynodiol diacetate with ethinyloestradiol Ethynodiol diacetate with mestranol Etidronate disodium tablets Etretinate capsules Fenbufen capsules and tablets Fenoprofen calcium capsules of 300 mg and

tablets of 600 mg Fenoterol hydrobromide as capsules for oral

inhalation, aerosol inhaler, oral liquid, and solution

Fenoterol hydrobromide with ipratropium bromide aerosol inhaler and nebulising solution in single dose units

Ferric ammonium citrate Ferric ammonium citrate mixture BPC Ferric ammonium citrate mixture for infants BPC Ferric chloride solution BPC 1973 Ferric chloride solution, strong BPC 1973 Ferrous fumarate with folic acid tablets Ferrous gluconate Ferrous phosphate with quinine and strychnine

syrup BPC 1968 Ferrous phosphate syrup, compound BPC 1968 Ferrous sulphate Ferrous sulphate, dried Ferrous sulphate long· acting tablets Ferrous sulphate mixture BPC Ferrous sulphate mixture for infants BP Ferrous sulphate with folic acid long· acting tablets Fibrinolysin with desoxyribonuclease powder and

ointment. Applicator to be supplied with ointment when specified

Fish liver oil ointment Flecainide acetate uyection and tablets Flucloxacillin magnesium syrup .. Flucloxacillin sodium capsules, uyection and syrup Flucytosine infusion and tablets . . . . Fludrocortisone tablets of 0.1 mg strength .. Fludrocortisone tablets of 1 mg strength . . Flumethasone pivalate with clioquinof ear drops Flunisolide nasal spray

Conditions


Only in combination in oral mixtures

Not on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order


Retail Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist

Retail Pharmacy-specialist Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Hospital Pharmacy-specialist


1987/303

Requirements

Drug Tariff 1987

SCHEDULE-continued


Fluocinolone acetonide scalp lotion Fluocinolone acetonide not exceeding 0.025

percent strength as skin preparations Fluocinonide cream Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone

pivalate cream and ointment Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone

pivalate, cinchocaine hydrochloride, hexachlorophane, and clemizole undecylate ointment and suppositories

Fluocortolone with fluocortolone hexanoate ointment

Fluopromazine hydrochloride Fluorescein sodium

1373

Conditions

Fluorescein sodium single dose eye drops Fluorometholone eye drops ..

Only a practitioner's supply order Retail Pharmacy-specialist

Fluorometholone with neomycin sulphate eye drops

Fluorouracil topical solution and topical cream

Fluorouracil sodium injection and oral solution Fluoxymesterone Flupenthixol decanoate injection Fluphenazine decanoate injection Fluphenazine enanthate injection Fluphenazine hydrochloride Flurbiprofen tablets .. Flutamide tablets Folic acid and its sodium salt Formaldehyde solution

Framycetin sulphate tablets

Framycetin sulphate, injection Framycetin sulphate proprietary eye and ear

preparations Framycetin sulphate with gramicidin ointment

and cream Frusemide injection, tablets of 40 mg strength and

oralli uids FrusemiJe infusion 250 mg and tablets exceeding

40 mg strength Fusidic acid, and its salts, except preparations

elsewhere listed in this direction Fusidic acid cream and gel Fusidic acid, sodium salt ointment Gamma benzene hexachloride Gamma benzene hexachloride application, BP Gelatin Gelsemium tincture BPC 1973 Gemfibrozil capsules . . . . Gentamicin sulphate cream and ointment Gentamicin sulphate eye drops Gentamicin sulphate injection Gentian infusion. compound Gentian tincture. compound BPC 1973 Gentian alkaline mixture BP Gentian mixture. acid. with nux vomica, BPC 1973

Con. Regs.-23B


Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription

Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist


Not available on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order

(a) Hospital Phannacy (b) Anttbiotic restriction Hospital Pharmacy




Retail Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy

1374 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Gentian mixture, alkaline, with phenobarbitone BPC 1973

Gentian mixture, acid, BPC 1973 Gentian mixture, alkaline, with nux vomica

BPC 1973 Ginger syrup BPC Ginger tincture weak BP Ginger tincture, strong BP Glibenclamide Gliclazide tablets Glipizide tablets Glucagon hydrochloride injection .. Glucose-oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips

and sticks as approved by the Director·General (urine testing)

Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips for insulin using diabetics as approved by the Director·General (blood testing)

Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic sticks and sodium nitroprusside with aminoacetic acid diagnostic sticks as approved by the Director· General

Glycerol Glycerol with paraffin liquid and cetyl alcohol skin

lotion Glycerorhosphates syrup, compound BPC 1963 Glycery trinitrate aerosol inhaler, tablets,

transdermal delivery system 5 mg, and ointment

Glycopyrronium bromide tablets Griseofulvin .. Guaiaphenesin with theophylline oral liquid Guanethidine sulphate Halibut·liver oil Haloperidol Halquinol with tar .. Hamamelis extract, dry BPC Hamamelis extract, liquid BPC 1973 Hamamelis water Hamamelis and zinc oxide suppositories BPC 1973 Heparin sodium . . . . . . Heparinoid hyaluronidase ointment Hexachlorophane powder

Hexachlorophane soap Hexamine Hexamine hippurate tablets Hexamine mandelate tablets Hexetidine vaginal application Hexoprenaline hydrochloride solution Hexoprenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler, injection,

and tablets . . . . . . Hexylresorcinol Homatropine hydrobromide Homatropine hydrobromide single dose eye drops Honey Hyaluronidase

Conditions

Not on a bulk supply order

Not on a bulk supply order

In combination

In combination

Midwifery order (14 g) Only on a prescription for an

extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo

Maternity hospital

Only on a practitioner's supply order In combination


SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements Conditions

Hydralazine hydrochloride Hydrochloric acid Hydrocortisone and its acetate for intra·articular

injection Hydrocortisone and hydrocortisone acetate

tablets Hydrocortisone and its acetate alone or in

combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared as a skin preparation and when supplied in the form of proprietary skin preparations

Hydrocortisone and its acetate alone or in combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared as a suppository

Hydrocortisone and its salts and esters, alone or in Retail Pharmacy-specialist combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when supplied as eye preparations

Hydrocortisone and its salts and esters alone or in combination with other phannaceutical requirements when supplied as ear, nose, or throat preparations

Hydrocortisone with framycetin sulphate and cinchocaine hydrochloride

Hydrocortisone with lignocaine hydrochoride, aluminium subacetate and zinc oxide ointment and suppositories

1375

Hydrocortisone with miconazole nitrate cream Hydrocortisone with natamycin and neomycin

skin preparations Hydrocortisone with wool fat, hydrous and Only on the prescription of a doctor

mineral oil lotion Hydrocortisone acetate foam as an aerosol Hydrocortisone acetate with oxytetracycline

hydrochloride ear drops Hydrocortisone butyrate cream, ointment, and

lotion Hydrocortisone butyrate with chlorquinaldol

cream and ointment Hydrocortisone sodium succinate intravenous Only a practitioner's supply order

injection Hydrocortisone sodium succinate tablets 2.5 mg Hydrogen peroxide solution .. Hydroxocobalamin only as an injection Hydroxychloroquine sulphate Hydroxyurea capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Hydroxyzine hydrochloride tablets Hyoscine hydrobromide .. Hyoscine hydrobromide single dose eyedrops Only on a practitioner's supply order Hyoscine methobromide .. Hyoscine N·butylbromide injection and tablets Hyoscyamus tincture BP Hypromellose eye drops Ibuprofen oral mixture and tablets Ichthammol .. Ichthammol glycerin BPC

1376 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Ichthammol ointment BP Idoxuridine eye preparations Idoxuridine skin ointment Idoxuridine topical solution Idoxuridine with dimethyl sulphoxide

Imipramine hydrochloride tablets Indapamide tablets Indigo cannine Indomethacin capsules, long-acting capsules and

suppositories Injections supplied in cartridge vial

Insulin injection 100 units per ml Insulin biphasic injection 100 units per ml Insulin isophane injection 100 units per rnl Insulin isophane with insulin neutral injection 100

units per ml Insulin neutral injection 100 units per rnl Insulin zinc suspension injection 100 units per ml Insulin zinc suspension amorphous injection 100

units per ml Insulin zinc suspension crystalline injection 100

units per ml Insulin isophane, human, injection 100 units per

ml Insulin isophane, human, with insulin neutral,

human, mjection 100 units per ml Insulin neutral, human, injection 100 units per ml Insulin zinc suspension, human, injection 100 units

perrnl Insulin zinc suspension, cystalline, human,

injection 100 uruts per ml Intravenous fluids

Iodine Iodine ointment, non-staining BPC 1968 Iodine paint, compound BPC 1968 Iodine solution, aqueous BP Iodine solution, weak BP

Ipecacuanha, prepared BP Ipecacuanha extract liquid BP Ipecacuanha tincture BP Ipecacuanha opiate mixture, paediatric BPC 1973 Ipecacuanha mixture for infants BPC 1973 __

Conditions


Only if extemporaneously prepared, and not exceeding 10 mf per prescription form

Not in topical application

Only if separately specified in this Pan of the Schedule

Payment to a contractor may be made only in respect of the cost to the contractor of the requirement concerned and the appropriate professional fee, and only if the requirement is prescribed for renal dialysis in the home of the patient concerned

Not in any proprietary preparation

Only-(a) On the prescnpuon of a

practitioner; or (b) MidWifery order (50 ml); or (c) On a practitioner's supply

order; or (d) On a bulk supply order

1987/303

Requirements

Drug Tariff 1987

SCHEDULE-continued


Ipecacuanha paediatric emetic draught BPC Ipecacuanha and morphine mixture BP Ipecacuanha and squill linctus for infants, BPC Ipratropium bromide aerosol inhaler for oral use,

aerosol inhaler for nasal use and nebuliser solution

Conditions

Iron carbohydrate complex intra-muscular Approved type injection

Iron polymaltose injection Isocarboxazid Isoconazole nitrate skin cream and pessaries Isoniazid Isoniazid with rifampicin Isoprenaline hydrochloride Isoprenaline hydrchloride long acting tablets Isoprenaline hydrochloride with phenylephrine

bitartrate aerosol inhaler Isoprenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler Isopropamide iodide liquid and tablets


1377

Isopropyl myristate with mineral oil and synthetic pine needle oil bath oil

Isosorbide dinitrate tablets lsotretinoin capsules Kanamycin sulphate Kaolin, colloidal

Only on the prescription of a doctor

Kaolin and morphine mixture BP Kaolin, heavy Kaolin, light Kaolin mixture BP Kaolin mixture for infants BP Ketoconazole tablets Ketoprofen capsules, long-acting capsules,

suppositiories and tablets Ketotifen syrup and tablets Labetalol hydrochloride Lachesine chloride Lactic acid Lactose Laevulose BP Lard, benzoinated Lavender oil Lavender oil, spike Lead acetate Lead lotion BPC 197 g Lead lotion, compund BNF 1968 Lead lotion, evaporating BPC 1973 Lead subacetate solution, dilute BPC 1973 Lead subacetate solution, strong BPC 1978 Lemon oil Lemon spirit Lemon syrup BP Levobunolol eye drops Levodopa Levonorgestrei

Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist Hospital Pharmacy-specialist




In combination


1378 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Lignocaine hydrochloride injection

Lincomycin hydrocloride

Liothyronine sodium Liquorice extract BPe Liquorice extract, dry, compound, tablets Liquorice extract, liquid BP .. Lithium carbonate capsules and tablets Lobelia tincture, ethereal BPe 1973 Lobelia and stramonium mixture, compound

BPe 1973 Loperamide hydrochoride only as capsules Loprazolam mesylate tablets Lorazepam tablets Lormetazepam tablets Loxapine succinate Lymecycline capsules 150 mg and capsules

300mg Lypressin spray Macrogol derivatives Macrogol ointment BP Macrogol polymers Magenta paint BPe 1973 Magnesium carbonate, heavy Magnesium carbonate, light Magnesium carbonate mixture BPe Magnesium carbonate mixture, aromatic BP Magnesium carbonate powder, compound BPC Magnesium chloride . . . . Magnesium oxide, light Magnesium sulphate, dried Magnesium sulphate paste BPe Magnesium trisilicate Magnesium trisilicate mixture BP Magnesium trisilicate with aluminium hydroxide

gel, dried tablets Magnesium trisilicate and belladonna mixture

BPe Magnesium trisilicate powder, compound BP Maize oil Maldison shampoo Malt extract BPe Malt extract, liquid BPe 1954 Malt extract with cod·liver oil BPC Malt extract with halibut·liver oil BPC 1973 Malt extract with vitamins Maprotiline hydrochloride tablets Massa estarinum suppository base Mebendazole oral suspension

Mebendazole tablets

Conditions

Only when-(a) Ordered by a doctor, on a

practitioner's supply order for ventricular arrhythmias; and

(b) The order is endorsed accordingly

(a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction

Approved type

Month restriction Month restriction Month restriction Retail Pharmacy-specialist Antibiotic restriction

In combination

Approved type



Only on a prescription not exceeding 30 mJ per person

Only on a prescription not exceeding 6 tablets per person

1987/303 Drug Tariff 1987 1379

SCHEDULE-continued

PART I1-continued AvaUabuUy-continued

if.equirements

Mecillinam injection . . . . Medroxyprogesterone acetate injection Medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets Medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets exceeding

5 mg strength Medrysone eye drops Mefenamic acid capsules

Mefloquine with pyrimethamine sulphadoxine tablets

Mefruside tablets Megestrol acetate tablets Melphalan .. Menaphthone sodium bisulphate Menaphthone sodium diphosphate Menthol .. .. Menthol and benzoin inhalation BP Menthol and eucalyptus inhalation BP Menthol inhalation BNF 1963 .. Meprobamate Mercaptopurine Mercuric chloride Mercuric iodide. red Mercuric nitrate ointment. dilute BPC 1959 Mercuric oxide eye ointment Mercuric oxide. yellow Mercuric oxycyanide Mercurochrome Mercury. ammoniated

and

Mercury. ammoniated, and coal tar ointment BPC Mercury. ammoniated. and coal tar with salicylic

acid ointment BPC Mesterolone tablets Metaraminol tartrate Metformin hydrochloride Methadone hydrochloride Methadone linctus BPC Methotrexate Methotrexate sodium Methotrimeprazine and its salts and esters Methoxsalen Methyclothiazide tablets Methyl hydroxybenzoate Methylcellulose Methylcellulose sterile eye drops Methyldigoxin injection and tablets Methyldopa .. Methyldopa with hydrochlorothiazide tablets Methylene blue . . . . Methylphenidate hydrochloride

Conditions

Retail Phannacy-specialist

Retail Phannacy-specialist Only-

(a) On a prescription for a female patient; and

(b) If not more than 30 capsules per month are prescribed; and

(c) Not more than 3 months supply is flrescribed

(a) Only if prescribed for the treatment of chloroquine resistant falci arum m3laria

(b) Hospi~ Pharmacy-specialist




Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy-specialist

Retail Phannacy-specialist

In combination

Hospital Phannacy

1380 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Methylprednisolone and its salts and esters except preparations elsewhere listed in this direction

Methylprednisolone acetate injection, with or without lignocaine hydrochloride

Methylprednisolone sodium succinate injection Methysergide dimaleate Metoclopramide suppositories Metoclopramide hydrochloride Metoclopramide hydrochloride with paracetamol

tablets Metoprolol succinate long·acting tablets Metropolol tartrate Metoprolol tartrate long.acting tablets Metronidazole suppositories and tablets Metronidazole, benzoyl, oral suspension Metyrapone capsules Mexiletine hydrochloride capsules and long acting

capsules Mianserin hydrochloride tablets

Miconazole tincture and oral gel Miconazole nitrate lotion, powder, pessaries, skin

cream and vaginal cream Mini peak How meters

Minocycline hydrochloride capsules 100 mg and tablets 50 mg

Monostearin, self·emulsifYing BPC Morphine hydrochloride Morphine sulphate Morphine sulphate long. acting tablets Mouth·wash solution tablets BP .. Mucopolysaccharide polysulphuric acid ester

ointment Mupirocin ointment Mustine hydrochloride injection Myrrh tincture BPC Nadolol tablets Nalidixic acid Nalorphine hydrobromide Naloxone hydrochloride injection Nandrolone decanoate injection Naphazoline hydrochloride Naphazoline nitrate Naproxen long.acting tablets 750 mg, oral liquid,

suppositories, and tablets Naproxen sodium capsules and tablets Natamycin

Needles, non.disposable as approved by the Director·General

Nefopam hydrochloride injection and tablets Neomycin and its salts for oral or parenteral use

Neomycin and its salts as skin preparations Neomycin and its salts as eye drops Neomycin and its salts as eye ointment

Conditions




Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription

(a) Approved type (b) Only on a wholesale supply order Antibiotic restriction

Midwifery order (14g.)


Only on a practitioner's supply order Retail Pharmacy-specialist

Not in a suspension exceeding 1 percent strength

(a) At>proved type (b) DJabetic supplies

(a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) AntIbiotic restriction

1987/303 Drug Tariff 1987 1381

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Neomycin sulphate, with or without other pharmaceutical requirements, in extemporaneously compounded preparations

Neomycin sulphate with polymyxin B sulphate and bacitracin zinc aerosol

Neomycin sulphate single dose eye drops Neostigmine bromide Neostigmine methylsulphate Niclosamide tablets Nicotinamide

Nicotinic acid Nicotinyl alcohol long·acting tablets of 150 mg

and tablets Nifedipine capsules and tablets Nimorazole tablets Nitrazepam capsules and tablets Nitric acid Nitrofurantoin Nitrofurazone cream and ointment Norethisterone tablets 0.35 mg Norethisterone tablets 5 mg Norethisterone with mestranol tablets Norethisterone acetate Norethisterone acetate with ethinyloestradiol Norfloxacin tablets Norgestrel with ethinyloestradiol Nortriptyline hydrochloride Noscapine linctus BP Nux vomica acid mixture BPC 1973 Nux vomica elixir BPC 1973 Nux vomica tincture BP Nystatin Oestradiol implant tablets Oestradiol benzoate injections and nasal

preparations Oestradiol benzoate with oestradiol

phenylpropionate, testosterone propionate, testosterone phenylpropionate, and testosterone isocaproate injection

Oestradiol benzoate with oestradiol valerate, norethisterone acetate and testosterone enanthate for injection

Oestradiol valerate tablets Oestradiol valerate tablets and oestradiol valerate

with norgestrel tablets Oestrogens, conjugated equine, tablets and

vaginal cream Oestrogens, conjugated equine tablets with

norgestrel tablets Oestrone Oestrone pessaries, suppositories, and nasal

preparations Oily cream BPC Oleic acid Olive oil

Con. Rq;s.-Z4B

Conditions




Month restriction


Not sterile powder

Not in any topical application

(a) On the prescription of a practitioner (b) Midwifery order (100 ml) (c) Maternity hospital

1382 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued

PART II -continued


Requirements Conditions

Opiate squill linctus BP Opiate squill linctus for infants BP Opium camphorated mixture, compound, BPC

1973 Opium tincture BP Opium tincture, camphorated BP Orange spirit, compound BP Orange syrup BP Orange tincture BP Orciprenaline sulphate Orciprenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler Omidazole injection oral tablets suppositories and

pessaries Omidazole oral tablets with a pessary Omipressin

Orphenadrine citrate tablets and injection Orphenadrine hydrochloride tablets Ortho-tolidine, compound, diagnostic sticks Oxazepam tablets Oxprenolol hydrochloride Oxprenolol hydrochloride long-acting tablets Oxybutynin chloride syrup and tablets Oxycodone pectinate suppositories Oxymetazoline hydrochloride nasal preparations Oxymetholone Oxyphencyclimine hydrochloride tablets Oxytetracycline suppositories, extemporaneously

prepared Oxytetracycline hydrochloride capsule 250 mg Oxytertracycline hydrochloride topical

preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements, when extemporaneously prepared

Oxytocin Oxytocin with ergometrine maleate injection Pancreatic enzyme preparations

Pancreatic enzyme preparations Papaveretum Pap<l:ver~tum with hyoscine hydrobromide

lIlJectlOn Papaverine hydrochloride Paracetamol Paracetamol elixir for infants BP Paracetamol with codeine phosphate tablets Paraffin, hard Paraffin liquid, light Paraffin liquid, light, as a bath oil Paraffin liquid with paraffin white soft eye

ointment Paraffin liquid with wool fat liquid eye ointment Paraffin, white, soft . . . . . . Paraffin, yellow, soft Paraffin ointment, BP 1963 Paraldehyde

Only on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order

Approved type Month restriction




(a) Approved type (b) Retail Pharmacy-specialist Approved type

Except proprietary oral drops

Only on the prescription of a doctor

1987/303 Drug Tariff 1987 1383

SCHEDULE-continued

PART II-conunued Availability-continued

Requirements

Peanut oil

Penicillamine tablets Pentaerythritol tetranitrate long-acting tablets and

tablets Pentazocine and its salts as an injection and tablets Peppermint emulsion concentrat~d BP Peppermint oil _ _ _ _ Peppermint spirit Peppermint water __ Perliexiline maleate tablets Pericyazine Perphenazine Peru balsam Pethidine hydrochloride Phenazone Phenelzine sulphate Phenobarbitone Phenobarbitone and theobromine tablets BPC Phenobarbitone elixir BP Phenobarbitone sodium Phenol Phenol and hydrogen peroxide gargle NZF 1953 Phenol ear drops BPC Phenol gargle BPC Phenol glycerin BP __ Phenol, liquefied ' _ Phenoxybenzamine capsules Phenoxyethanol Phenoxymethylpenicillin benzathine

Phenoxymethylpenicillin potassium salt

Phenoxymethylpenicillin hydrabamine

Phentolamine mesylate Phenylephrine hydrochloride Phenylephrine hydrochloride single dose eye

drops Phenylephrine hydrochloride with zinc sulphate

eye drops Phenylmercuric acetate Phenylmercuric nitrate Phenytoin tablets Phenytoin sodium Pheytoin sodium with phenobarbitone sodium

tablets Pholcodine Pholcodine linctus BP Pholcodine linctus, strong BP Phosphoric acid Phthalylsulphathiazole Physostigmine salicylate Phytomenadione Pilocarpine eye inserts Pilocarpine hydrochloride Pilocarpine nitrate single dose eye drops

, Conditions

Only on the prescription of a practioner or Midwifery order (100 ml)



In combination

In combination Retail Pharmacy-specialist

(a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction _ (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction





1384 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Pimozide tablets Pindolol injection and tablets Piperazine citrate elixir BP .. Piperonyl butoxide with pyrethrins

shampoo Pipothiazine pahnitate injection Pirenzepine hydrochloride tablets

Piroxicam capsules and tablets .. Pituitary (posterior lobe) insuHlation Pivampicillin and its salts ..

Pivmecillinam hydrochloride Pizotifen Podophyllum resin Podophyllin compound paint BP Polawax Poiymyxin B sulphate

and 11

Polymyxin B sulphate proprietary ear drops Polymyxin B sulphate WIth neomycin sulphate

and gramicidin as proprietary eye drops Polymyxin B sulphate WIth neomycin sulphate as

proprietary powders Polynoxylin gel Polysorbate 80 BP Polyvinyl alcohol eye drops Potassium acid phosphate Potassium bicarbonate Potassium bicarbonate with sodium acid

phosphate and sodium bicarbonate effervescent tablets

Potassium chlorate Potassium chlorate and phenol gargle BPC Potassium chloride . . . . Potassium chloride long acting tablets Potassium citrate Potassium citrate mixture BP Potassium citrate and belladonna mixture for

infants BPe 1959 Potassium citrate and hyoscyamus mixture BPC Potassium citrate mixture for infants BPC 1959 Potassium hydroxide Potassium hydroxyquinoline sulphate Potassium iodide . . . . Potassium iodide ammoniated mixture BPC 1973 Potassium perchlorate Potassium permanganate .. Potassium with chloride. effervescent tablets Povidone iodine ointment Prazosin hydrochloride tablets Prednisolone tablets Prednisolone tablets. enteric coated Prednisolone and its salts and esters alone or in

combination with other pharmaceutical requirements as proprietary eye preparations

Prednisolone acetate with neomycin sulphate and polymyxin B sulphate proprietary eye drops

Conditions


Retail Pharmacy-specialist (a) On a prescription with a daily dose

not exceeding 50 mg; or (b) Month restriction

(a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction

For injection only


Not lozenges

Not soluble tablets of 500 mg

Only in packs of 25 g or 100 g



1987/303 Drug Tariff 1987 1385

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Prednisolone sodium phosphate for use as an enema

Prednisolone sodium phosphate suppositories Prednisone tablets Pregnancy tests

Primaquine phosphate Primidone Probenecid Probucol tablets Procainamide hydrochloride Procainamide hydrochloride long-acting tablets Procaine penicillin Procarbazine hydrochloride Prochlorperazine, its salts and esters Procyclidine hydrochloride Proflavine hemisulphate Proflavine solution-tablets Progesterone Proguanil hydrochloride tablets Promethazine theoclate Promulsin Promulsin wax Propamidine isethionate ophthalmic solution 1, 2 propanediol -diacetate with acetic acid and

benzethonium chloride ear drops Propantheline bromide tablets Propranolol hydrochloride injection, long-acting

capsules and tablets Propyl hydroxybenzoate Propylthiouracil Protamine sulphate injection Prothionamide Protriptyline hydrochloride tablets Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride tablets and elixir Pumilio pine oil Pyrantel embonate Pyrazinamide Pyridostigmine bromide Pyridoxine hydrochloride injection Pyridoxine hydrochloride

Pyrimethamine with sulphadoxine tablets ~aia extract, liquid BP Quillaia tincture BP Quinalbarbitone sodium Quinidine bisulphate long acting capsules and

long-acting tablets Quinidine sulphate Quinine sulphate Ranitidine hydrochloride injection Ranitidine hydrochloride tablets

Raspberry syrup BP Reserpine Resorcinol Resorcinol ointment, compound BPC

Conditions

(a) Approved type (b) OIlly on a wholesale supply order

Retail Pharmacy-speCialist





Not exceeding 50 mg per 2 ml each Only on a prescription not, exceeding a

strength of 100 mg per dose Hospital Pharmacy-specialist

Month restriction

(a) OIlly on a prescription with a daily dose not exceeding 150 mg; or

(b) Month restriction In combination

1386 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Resorcinol and sulphur paste BPC Riboflavine

Rifampicin . . . . . . Rimiterol hydrobromide aerosol inhaler Rolitetracycline and its nitrate, with or without

lignocaine hydrochloride, for injection Rose bengal single dose eye drops Rose water Rosemary oil Saccharin and saccharin sodium Salbutamol aerosol inhaler Salbutamol sulphate as capsules for oral

inhalation, oral liquid, tablets, injection, respirator solution, long ·acting tablets, powder for oral inhalation and nebulising solution in single dose units

Salicylic acid Salicylic acid and sulphur ointment BPC Salicylic acid collodion BP Salicylic acid lotion BP Salicylic acid ointment BP Salicylic acid and dithranol paste, strong Salicylic acid and dithranol paste, weak Salicylic acid and mercuric chloride lotion BPC Salicylic acid and sulphur cream BP Saline mixture BPC 1968 Salt solution, balanced, eye solution

Scarlet red Senega infusion Senega extract, liquid BP Silver nitrate Silver nitrate, toughened BP Silver protein, mild BPC 1968 Silver sulphadiazine with chlorhexidine

digluconate cream Simple linctus BP Simple linctus for infants BP Simple eye ointment BP Simple ointment BP Simple syrup Soap, soft Soap, solution, ethereal Soap solution, compound NZF 1953 Soap spirit, industrial Soap spirit, potash, industrial Sodium alginate with sodium bicarbonate oral

mixture Sodium aurothiomalate Sodium benzoate Sodium bicarbonate Sodium bicarbonate ear drops BP Sodium bicarbonate mixture for infants BPC 1973 Sodium bicarbonate tablets, compound BP Sodium calciumedetate Sodium carboxymethycellulose

Conditions



Only on a practitioner's supply order In combination In combination In combination

(a) Approved type (b) Retail Pharmacy-specialist




In combination

1987/303 Drug Tariff 1987 1387

SCHEDULE-continued


Requirements

Sodium carboxymethycellulose with pectin and gelatin paste and powder

Sodium chloride Sodium chloride injection

Sodium chloride single dose eye drops Sodium chloride mixture, compound BPC Sodium chloride mouth wash, compound BP Sodium citrate Sodium citrate mixture BPC Sodium citro-tartrate effervescent granules Sodium cromoglycate capsules for oral and nasal

inhalation Sodium cromoglycate aerosol inhaler for oral use Sodium cromoglycate capsules _ _ _ _ Sodium cromoglycate eye drops and eye ointment Sodium cromoglycate nebuliser solution, nasal

spray and nasal drops Sodium cyclamate __ Sodium fluoride __ Sodium hyaluronate eye solution Sodium hydroxide Sodium hypochlorite solution

Sodium iodide Sodium lauryl sulphate Sodium metabisulphite Sodium nitroprusside, buffered, diagnostic strips

Sodium nitroprusside with arninoacetic acid diagnostic tablets

Sodium nitroprusside infusion Sodium polyhydroxyaluminium monocarbonate

hexitol complex tablets Sodium polystyrene sulphonate Sodium salicylate Sodium salicylate mixture BP Sodium salicylate mixture, strong BP Sodium tetradecyl sulphate injection Sodium thiosulphate Sodium valproate Sorbitan derivatives Sorbitol solution Sotalol hydrochloride injection and tablets Soyabean oil

Spectinomycin hydrochloride Spermaceti __ Spiramycin __ Spirit ear drops BNF 1971 Spirit, bay, compound, industrial Spironolactone tablets Squill oxymel BPC

Conditions

Only in quantities of 50 ml or less per unit


Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Hospital Pharmacy

In combination


Only if-(a) Of a type approved by the Director

General for the purposes of this direction; and

(b) Prescribed for renal dialysis in the bome of the patient concerned

(a) Not available on a bulk supply order (b) Approved type (a) Not available on a bulk supply order (b) Approved type Hospital Pharmacy-specialist


In combination

Only on the prescription practitioner or Midwifery (IOOml)


In combination

of a order

1388 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

SCHEDULE-continued

PART 11 -continued


Squill syrup, BPC Squill tincture BP Squill vinegar BP Starch Stearic acid Stilboestrol

Requirements

Stilboestrol diphosphate Stilboestrol pessaries BPC Stramonium and potassium iodide mixture BNF

1971 Stramonium tincture BP Streptokinase and streptodornase Streptomycin sulphate Strychnine hydrochloride Sucralfate tablets

Sugar .. Sulindac tablets Sulphacetamide sodium Sulphacetamide sodium eye ointment Sulphacetamide sodium single dose eye drops Sulphadiazine sodium only as an injection Sulphadimidine Sulphadimidine mixture for infants BPC Sulphafurazole and derivatives Sulphaguanidine Sulphamethizole Sulphapyridine SulphasaIazine enema Sulphasalazine suppositories and tablets Sulphinpyrazone . . . . Sulphur lotion, compound BPC Sulphur, precipitated .. Sulphur, sublime Sulphur with phenol and titanium dioxide cream Sulphurated potash Sulthiame Sunscreen preparations, proprietary

Syringes, non.disposable

Syringes, plastic for insulin, with attached needle

Talc, purified .. Talc dusting powder BP Tamoxifen citrate Tannic acid glycerin BPC 1973 Tar Tar, compound, bath oils

Tartaric acid Tartrazine solution, compound, BPC Temazepam capsules Tenoxicam tablets Terbutaline sulphate Terbutaline sulphate long·acting tablets Terbutaline sulphate aerosol inhaler

Conditions

In combination


Not oral tablets Not in any skin preparation

(a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner

(b) Month restriction In combination

Not exceeding 10 percent strength Only on a practitioner's supply order

Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Antibiotic restriction Retail Pharmacy-specialist

(a) Approved type (b) Retail Phannacy-specialist (a) Approved type (b) Diabetic supplies (a) Af'proved type (b) Diabetic syringes

(a) Approved type (b) Only on the prescription of a doctor

Month restriction


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Requirements

Terpin hydrate Testosterone cypionate only as an injection Testosterone enanthate injection Testosterone enanthate ointment Testosterone, mixed esters, for injection Testosterone propionate injection Testosterone propionate ointment Testosterone undecanoate capsules Tetrabenazine Tetrabromophenol blue diagnostic sticks Tetracosactrin Tetracosactrin, long acting Tetracycline suppositories, extemporaneously

prepared Tetracycline hydrochloride capsules 250 mg and

capsules 500 mg Tetracycline hydrochloride eye ointment Tetracycline hydrochloride tablets 250 mg and

tablets 500 mg Tetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations

with or without other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared

Tetracycline hydrochloride, phosphate buffered, capsules 250 mg

Theobroma oil Theophylline Theophylline long-acting capsules and long-acting

tablets

Conditions



Approved type




1389

Thiamine hydrochloride Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 50 mg per dose

Thietbylperazine maleate Thioguanine tablets Thiomersal Thiopropazate hydrochloride tablets Thioridazine hydrochloride Thioridazine hydrochloride long acting tablets Thiotepa _ _ _ _ Thiothixene tablets 2 mg and 10 mg Thiothixene oral solution Thiothixene hydrochloride injection Thymol Thymol glycerin, compound BP Thyroxine sodium Tiaprofenic acid tablets Tiemonium iodide injection and tablets Timolol maleate eye drops __ Timolol maleate injection and tablets Tinidazole tablets Tioconazole skin cream, skin lotion, vaginal

ointment and pessaries Titanium dioxide Titanium dioxide paste BP __ Tobramycin eye drops and eye ointment Tobramycin sulphate injection __ Tocainide hydrochloride injection and tablets Tolazamide tablets Tolbutamide



Retail Pharmacy-speCialist


Retail Pharmacy -specialist Hospital Pharmacy Retail Pharmacy -specialist

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Requirements

Tolnaftate cream, powder and solution Tolu linctus for infants, compound BP Tolu solution BP Tolu syrup BP Tragacanth .. Tragacanth, powder, compound BP Tragacanth mucilage BPC 1973 Tranylcypromine sulphate Tretinoin Triacetyloleandomycin

Triamcinolone tablets Triamcinolone acetonide injection Triamcinolone acetonide with nystatin and

lignocaine hydrochloride ointment and suppositories

Triamcinolone acetonide with nystatin, neomycin sulphate and gramicidin proprietary skin cream and proprietary skin ointment and ear drops

Triamcinolone hexacetonide injection .. Triamterene Triamterene with hrdrochlorothiazide Triazolam tablets 0 0.125 mg and 0.25 mg Trichloroacetic aid Trichloroethylene

Tiethanolamine Trifluoperazine hydrochloride injection,

long acting capsules and syrup Trimetaphan camsylate Trimethoprim tablets Trimipramine maleate Trioxsalen tablets Triple syrup BPC 1949 Tripotassium dicitratobismuthate, tablets Tropicamide eye drops Tropicamide single dose eye drops Trypan blue .. Trypsin Tuaminoheptane sulphate Tyloxapol eye drops .. Undecenoic acid Urea

Urea 10 percent proprietary cream Vancomycin hydrochloride Vanillin

tablets,

Vasopressin and its salts and esters as an injection Verapamil hydrochloride long·acting capsules,

long·acting tablets, injection and tablets Vidarabine eye ointment Vinblastine sulphate Vincristine sulphate Vitamin A capsules of 50,000 i.u. strength Vitamin A tablets of 50,000 i.u. strength Vitamin A solution, concentrated BPC

Conditions

In combination In combination In combination

Not impregnated swabs (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Retail Pharmacy-specialist

Month restriction

(a) Not exceeding 25 ml (b) Not on a practitioner's supply order

or a bulk supply order

Only on a practitioner's supply order Antibiotic restriction


Month restriction


Not oral tabets

Not in any proprietary preparation unless it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule

Hospital Pharmacy In combination

Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist Retail Pharmacy-specialist

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Requirements

Vitamin A acetate tablets Vitamin A and D capsules BPC Vitamins A. D. and C solution Vitamin B complex injection

Vitamin B tablets. compound BPC Vitamin B tablets. compound, strong BPC Vitamins tablets (BPC capsule strength) warfarin sodium Water for injections

Wild cherry syrup BP Wool alcohols BP Wool alcohols ointment BP Wool fat BP Wool fat. hydrous BP

Conditions

(a) Approved type (b) oruy on a bulk supply order

(a) In quantItles of 50 ml or less per unit. only when prescribed on the same prescription form or practitioner's supply order as lIljections mentioned in this direction and requiring a solvent or diluent. or on a bulk supply order

(b) In quantities exceeding 50 ml per unit only on a whofesale supply order

(c) When used in the extemporaneous compounding of eye arops

Wool fat. hydrous. with mineral oil bath oil and Only on the prescription of a doctor lotion

Wool fat ointment. hydrous BPC Xylometazoline hydrochloride nasal preparations Zinc chloride Zinc oxide Zinc oxide. colloidal Zinc and castor oil ointment BP Zinc and coal tar paste BP Zinc and ichthammol cream BP Zinc and salicyclic acid paste BP Zinc cream BP Zinc gelatin BPC 1968 Zinc ointment BP Zinc paste. compound BP Zinc. starch. and talc dusting powder BPC Zinc stearate Zinc stearate dusting powder BNF 1957 Zinc sulphate Zinc sulphate and adrenaline eye drops. BP Zinc suiphate lotion BP Zinc sulphide lotion BPC 1973 Zinc undecenoate Zinc undecenoate dusting powder BPC Zinc undecenoate ointment BPC

1392 Drug Tariff 1987 1987/303

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of September 1987.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DA VID CA YGILL, Minister of Health.

This note is not part of the direction, but is intended to indicate its general effect. This direction, which comes into force on I November 1987 instead of the usual

I December, sets out the drugs, medicines, and materials that may be supplied at the cost of the Department of Health by pharmacists and others who have contracted to supply them under the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1965. It also sets out the terms and conditions of supply, the procedure for the lodging and payment of claims by contractors, and the rules for fixing the prices payable to contractors.

The Schedule to the Tariff specifies the materials and classes of material that are allowed or conditionally allowed at the cost of the Department of Health.

Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936. Date of notification in Gautte: I October 1987. This direction is administered in the Department of Health.

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