Pharmacy Law and Practice -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The National Health Service -- The National Insurance Act 1911 -- The National Health Service statutes -- The National Health Service Act 1977 -- General principles, scope and nature of the current NHS -- The interests of the public -- Advice from the health professions -- Acts of Parliament mainly concerned with the NHS -- 2 Administration of the NHS -- The Department of Health -- NHS Executive -- Health Authorities -- NHS contracts -- NHS Trusts -- Primary Care Groups -- Special Health Authorities -- Prescription Pricing Authority -- Effects of devolution -- 3 Applications to Dispense NHS Prescriptions -- Applications for NHS contracts -- In the pharmaceutical list -- Who may apply for a contract? -- Applications for change of ownership -- Removal from the pharmaceutical list -- Applications from appliance contractors -- Planning law -- 4 Rural Dispensing -- History -- The current rules -- 5 Terms of Service -- The Health Authority's duty -- Pharmaceutical services -- Additional professional services -- Incorporation of other provisions -- 6 The Drug Tariff -- Form and content of the Drug Tariff -- Urgent prescriptions -- Borderline Substances -- Medical Foods Regulations -- 7 Prescription Charges -- The Regulations -- 8 Complaints and Discipline in the NHS -- Pharmacy-based complaints procedure -- Complaint handling in Health Authorities -- Disciplinary procedures -- New arrangements for dealing with serious allegations -- Referral to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society -- The FHS Appeal Authority -- 9 Retail Pharmacy -- History -- Who may own a pharmacy? -- Retail pharmacy business -- Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists -- 10 Manufacture and Licensing of Medicinal Products.

The Medicines Act 1968 and other controls -- Medicinal products -- Marketing Authorization -- Manufacturers' Licence -- 11 Control of Sales of Medicines -- Control of retail sales -- Legal categories of medicines -- Retail sales staff -- Wholesaling of medicines -- Parallel imports -- Advertising and sales promotion -- 12 Special Circumstances -- Supply of medicines in an emergency -- Collection and delivery schemes -- Named-patient supplies -- 13 Hospitals and the Medicines Act -- Crown immunity -- Exemptions in the Medicines Act for hospitals -- 14 Traditional and Alternative Medicines -- Herbal remedies -- Homoeopathic medicines -- Restrictions on sale for safety reasons -- HIV testing kits -- 15 Labelling and Containers -- The main Regulations -- The standard labelling requirements for medicinal products for human use -- Labelling for dispensed medicinal products -- Standard labelling requirements for homeopathic products -- Pharmacists' own remedies -- Child resistant containers -- Ribbed or fluted bottles -- Offences -- Patient Information Leaflets -- Standard requirements for Patient Information Leaflets -- 16 Other Health Professions and Medicines -- Doctors -- Nurses -- Midwives -- Opthalmic opticians -- Chiropodists -- Ambulance paramedics -- Nurse prescribing -- Patient Group Directions -- 17 Poisons and Other Controls -- The Poisons Board -- The Poisons List -- The Poisons Rules -- Section 4 exemptions -- The CHIP Regulations 1994 -- The Environmental Protection Act 1990 -- Other products subject to statutory control -- 18 Controlled Drugs -- Basic provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 -- International convention -- Regulations concerned with misue of drugs -- The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 -- Requirements for writing prescriptions -- Supplies within the hospital or nursing home -- How are supplies made commercially?.

Requisitions -- Preservation of prescriptions, etc. -- Destruction of CDs -- Re-use of controlled drugs -- Safe custody -- Addicts -- Controls of specific drugs -- Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 -- 19 Confidentiality and Records -- Confidentiality -- What is a health record? -- Individual's rights -- Records -- 20 The European Union -- Law-making institutions -- Community law -- 21 The Pharmacy Profession -- History -- The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain -- The Statutory Committee of the RPSGB -- The standards of professional conduct -- A Health Committee -- The future -- 22 Liability in Negligence -- Dispensing mistakes -- Negligence -- Liability as an occupier of premises -- 23 Business Premises -- Freehold premises -- Leasehold premises -- 24 Business Associations -- The sole trader -- Partnership -- The limited company -- 25 The Sale of Goods -- Formation of the contract -- The price to be paid -- Cancelling the contract -- The passing of property -- Perishing of goods -- Invalid title -- Misrepresentation -- Terms of the contract -- Remedies available to the seller - buyer in default -- Buyer's remedies -- Damages -- Product liability -- 26 Employment Law -- The contract of employment -- Continuity of employment -- Special categories of employee -- Employee's duties under the contract of employment -- Restraint of trade covenants -- Employer's duties under the contract of employment -- Wages issues -- Maternity issues -- Insolvent employer -- Equal pay and discrimination -- Bringing the employment to an end -- Human rights at work -- Appendices -- 1: Definitions -- 2: National Health Service Act 1977 -- 3: Medicines Act 1968 -- 4: The Medicines (Products other than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1983 -- 5: NHS (PS) Regulation 1992 Schedule 2.

6: The Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations 1994 -- 7: The Code of Ethics of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain -- Index.