923 1984/180
THE DRUG TARIFF 1984
PURSUANT to section 99 of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister of Health hereby gives the following direction.
ANALYSIS I. Title and commencement 17. Payment for practitioners' supply orders 2. Interpretation 18. Rectified spirit
PART I PART III
GENERAL RULES AFFECTING DIRECTION MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 3. Scope of direction 19. Claims on Department 4. Rules for standard 20. Allergy treatment sets 5. Prices for pharmaceutical requirements 21. Payment for syringes and needles 22. Payment for plastic syringes PART II 23. Payment for intravenous fluids 24. Payment for anaesthetic gases RULES FOR PRICING 25. Period and quantity of supply where 6. Application of rules for pricing prescription written by medical 7. Prescription pricing practitioner 8. Computation of selling price 26. Period and quantity of supply in respect 9. Items not listed in First Schedule to of prescriptions for oral contraceptives Prescription Pricing Schedules 27. Period and quantity of supply when 10. Items dispensed by count prescription written by dentist 11. Official requirements not in First Schedule 28. Original packs, and certain antibiotics to Prescriptioll Pricing Schedules 29. Bulk supply orders 12. Rounding calculations 30. Practitioner's supply orders 13. Minimum charges 31. Wholesale suppfy orders 14. Adjustment of dose volumes of oral liquid 32. Endorsement of prescrip,tion with words pharmaceutical requirements "Approved condition' 15. Water 33. Revocations and savings 16. Payment for bulk supply orders Schedule
DIRECTION 1. Title and commencement-(l) This direction may be cited as the Drug Tariff 1984. (2) This direction shall come into force on the 1st day of August 1984.
2. Interpretation-(I) In this direction, unless the context otherwise requires,- "The Act" means the Social Security Act 1964: "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 of that Act): "The Department" means the Department of Health: 924 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
"Director· General" means the Director·General of Health: "Hospital Board" means a Hospital Board constituted under the Hospitals Act 1957: "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 days: "Outpatient" means any person being treated at any hospital under the control of a Hospital Board otherwise than as an mmate: "Payment" means payment by the Department in accordance with the terms of this direction: "Prescription Pricing Schedules" means the official schedules for prescription pricing issued by the Department from time to time for the purpose of determining the prices to be paid to contractors in respect of pharmaceutical requirements supplied by them; and includes the Revised Prescription Pricing Schedules referred to in subclause (3) of clause 5 of tills direction; but does not include any suspension of the Prescription Pricing Schedules referred to in subclause (8) of that clause: "Proprietary preparation" means a pharmaceutical 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": "Secretary" means the Secretary of Trade and Industry: "Selling Price" means the r,rice specified in the colwnn headed "Prescription Selling Price ' in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules or as calculated under clause 9 or clause 10 of this direction, as the case may be. (2) Subject to subclause O} 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 AFFECTING DIRECTION 8. Scope of direction-(l) Subject to- (a) Subclause (2) of this clause; and (b) The restrictions as to its availability (if any) specified in the second colwnn of Part II of the Schedule to this direction opposite the reference to it in the first column of that Part,- every medicine, drug, and material specified in the first column of Part n of the Schedule to this direction, and every preparation (having an inert base) of any of them, is hereby declared to be included in this direction and to be a pharmaceutical requirement for its purposes. (2) Materials belonging to the following classes shall be deemed not to be included in this direction and not to be pharmaceutical requirements:
*S.R. 1965/41 Amendment No. I: S.R. 1969;240 Amendment No. 2: S.R. 1972/14 Amendment No. 3: S.R. 1974140 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 925
(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 (ill) Contraceptive purposes: (h) Substances, or combinations of substances, ordered by a dentist for the treatment of a patient's dental condition and intended for injection, and being (or containing as an active ingredient) a local anaesthetic: (c) Unless it is specified in Part II of the Schedule to this direction that they be so packed, substances, and combinations of substances, packed under pressure in aerosol cans or other similar devices: (d) Electrode jellies: (e) Unless it is specified in Part II of the Schedule to this direction that they be so packed, eye drops packed in single-dose units: (f) Insect repellants and similar preparations: (g) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule to this direction that they be in such a form, oral preparations in long-acting form: (h) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule to this direction that they be in such a form, substances, or combinations of substances, in lozenge or similar form: (i) Machine-spread plasters: g) Preparations prescribed as foods: (k) Unless they are deemed or declared to be pharmaceutical requirements elsewhere in this direction, sub"tances, combinations of substances, or articles, in the form of proprietary medicines or proprietary articles: (l) Shampoos (other than extemporaneously prepared medicated shampoos, or shampoos specified in Part 11 of the Schedule to this direction, intended for the treatment of a patient's medical condition): (m) Toilet preparations: (n) Tooth pastes and powders: (0) Lubricating jellies and catheter lubricants: (p) Sterile diluents for nebulising solutions: (q) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule to this direction that they be in such a form, substances for transdermal delivery: (r) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the Schedule to this direction that they be in such a form, substances in eye inserts_
4. R.ules for standard-(l) No claim by a contractor for payment in respect of the supply of pharmaceutical requirements by lum shall be allowed unless the requirements so supplied comply- (a) With the appropriate standards prescribed by regulations for the time being in force under the Medicines Act 1981; or (h) In the absence of any such standards, with the appropriate standards for the time being prescribed by the British Pharmacopoeia; or (c) In the absence of any of the standards prescribed by paragraph (al or paragraph (h) of this subclause, with the appropriate standards for the time being prescribed by the British Pharmaceutical Codex. (2) In the absence of any of the standards prescribed by subclause (1) of this clause, the grade or quality of the product supplied shall not be lower than that ordinarily used for medicinal purposes. 926 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
5. Prices for pharmaceutical requirements-( 1) Subject to clause 19 of this direction and to subclause (8) of this clause, payment shall be made in respect of claims for phannaceutical requirements in accordance with the pnces specified in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules and in accordance with the rules for pricing contained in Part II of this direction. (2) Subject to clause 19 of this direction, where the price of any phannaceutical requirement is not specified as provided in subclause (1) of this clause, rayment shall be made in accordance with the rules contained in Part II 0 this direction. (3) Revised Prescription Pricing Schedules shall come into force on the 1st day of April, August, or December, in every year, or such other date as may be recommended by the appropriate committee, and payment in respect of any claims for phannaceutical requirements, whatever their date, received by the Department on or after the 16th day following the effective date of the revision shall be calculated in accordance with the prices specified in that revision. (4) Subject to subclauses (5) to (7) of this clause, if any phannaceutical requirements are supplied to a patient as phannaceutical benefits, they shall be so supplied free of charge to the patient, except that, if the requirements are to be delivered to the patient elsewhere than at the phannacy or other place of business of the contractor, a reasonable charge in accordance with regulation 14 (2) of the regulations may be made for the delivery. (5) A contractor may charge a customer with- (a) The price of any phannaceutical requirements that are supplied by him in excess of the maximum quantities specified in this direction: (b) In the case of a proprietary preparation that is specifically ordered by a practitioner and supplied by the contractor or a pharmaceutical requirement referred to in clause 8 (2) of this direction, the excess of the price of the preparation or requirement above the amount payable as calculated in accordance with the Prescription Pricing Schedules and the rules for pricing contained in this direction. (6) Where a requirement is dispensed as a phannaceutical benefit in a phannacy to which section 46 of the Phannacy Act 1970 applies, the contractor concerned may charge the customer 15 cents in respect of that requirement. (7) Where a requirement is dispensed as a phannaceutical benefit (otherwise than in a phannacy to which section 46 of the Phannacy 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, he may charge the customer 35 cents in respect of that requirement. (8) If the Minister at any time gives notice that any part of the Prescription Pricing Schedules is suspended, the amount payable to the contractor for the duration of the suspension shall be the appropriate amount specified in that notice. PART II RULES FOR PRICING 6. Application of rules for pricing-W Subject to the discount provided for in clause 19 of this direction, the prices of phannaceutical requirements supplied pursuant to the regulations shall be determined in accordance with the rules for pricing contained in this Part of this direction. 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 927
(2) Where the computation is within plus or minus one half of one percent of the correct net amount payable to a contractor in respect of the claim concerned, then notwithstanding that computation, payment to a contractor shall be made and accepted by him in full satisfaction of his claim against the Department for payment. (3) In the event of a dispute between a contractor and the Department concerning payment to a contractor, the contractor may apply in writing to the Director·General who shall, on receipt of the application, refer it to the appropriate committee for consideration and recommendation; and, in that case, the committee shall then consider the application and on coming to a decision shall notify the Director·General who shall then notify it in writing to the contractor. 7. Prescription pricing-Payment for each prescription shall be calculated by adding together: (a) The total selling price of the ingredients: (b) The amount specified in the Second Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules for- (i) The average container charge; and . (ii) An approved child resistant closure, if the pharmaceutical requirement is dispensed in a container having such a closure: (c) The appropriate professional fee set out in the Third Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules: (d) In the case only of a Class B controlled drug that, at the time of initial dispensing could not be supplied in the total quantity of the initial supply prescribed, the appropriate additional fee set out in the Third Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules. 8. Computation of selling price-(l) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, the selling price shall be determined on the basis of the price charged to contractors for the pharmaceutical requirements in such units as are customarily purchased by a contractor and at such prescription wholesale prices as may from time to time be approved by the Secretary. Where necessary, any such prices shall be converted to selling prices in the metric system. (2) In the case of any requirement that has, in accordance with the advice of the appropriate committee, been marked with an asterisk in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules, the selling price shall be such as the Minister may determine after consultation with that committee. (3) The principal divisions of the metric system for the calculation of the selling price of any pharmaceutical requirement shall be 1 gram or 1 millilitre, or a specified number, or a specified pack. (4) If a pharmaceutical requirement can be purchased in quantities other than in the quantities specified in subclause (3) of this clause, the selling price shall be calculated in the appropriate ratio to those quantities. (5) Where a liquid is purchased by weight and is dispensed by volume, an appropriate adjustment, based on the specific gravity of the liquid, shall be made in computing the selling/rice. (6) All computations concerne with quantities of pharmaceutical requirements that are specified in the Schedule to this direction shall be made in the metric system: Provided that, in the case of a pharmaceutical requirement that 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. 928 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
(7) Where a prescription for an injection orders the supply of a dry pack of a phannaceutical 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. (8) Where, for special reasons concerned with the protection of the patient, a practitioner directs on the prescription that a pharmaceutical requirement is to be dispensed daily or at such other regular intervals as he considers necessary, payment shall be made by adding together the total selling price of the quantity of the pharmaceutical 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. (9) Where the strength of a preparation is not indicated on a prescription the contractor shall endorse thereon the strength supplied. Otherwise payment shall be based on the price of the lowest strength available.
9. Items not listed in First Schedule to Prescription Pricing Schedules-(l) In the case of items not listed in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules, the selling price shall be computed by adding together the following: (a) The wholesaler's selling price: (b) 11.28 percent of the price specified in paragraph (a) of this subclause. (2) Where necessary the price so computed shall be converted to the nearest appropriate metric amount specified in clause 8 (3) of this direction.
10. Items dispensed by count-(l) Where items dispensed by count are listed in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules, the selling price of the number dispensed shall be calculated as an exact numerical proportion of the selling price shown in that Schedule. (2) Where items dispensed by count are not listed in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules, the selling price shall be computed by adding together the following: (a) The wholesaler's selling price: (b) 11.28 percent of the price specified in paragraph (a) of this subclause. (3) Broken quantities shall be computed as an exact numerical proportion of the selling price.
11. Official requirements not in First Schedule to Prescription Pricing Schedules-Where any pharmaceutical requirement (being a requirement included in the British Pharmacopoeia, the British Pharmaceutical Codex, the Pharmaceutical Codex, or the British National Formulary, but not one included in the First Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules) is purchased as a ready·made preparation, a contractor shall claim by stating in writing the cost price and source of supply. In every other case the prescription shall be priced in accordance with the rules for pricing contained in this Part of this direction.
12. Rounding calculations-Calculations for the price of each ingredient are to be rounded to the nearest cent, but exact half cents are to be so expressed. The final half cent is to be rounded upwards to the nearest cent.
IS. Minimum charges-(l) The minimum charge for any ingredient in a mixture shall be 1 cent. 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 929
(2) Subject to subclause (3) of this clause, the minimwn 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, payment shall be made for the total value of the requirements that are specified in this direction rounded upwards to the nearest cent. (4) For the purposes of this clause the tenn "mixture" means any prescribed preparation requiring the admixture of 2 or more ingredients, mcluding a vehicle or excipient.
14. Adjustment of dose volumes of oral liquid pharmaceutical requirements-(l) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, where there is prescribed a dose of an oral liquid pharmaceutical 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 pharmaceutical requirement) required to make the volwne 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 die Prescription Pricing Schedules. (2) No payment shall be made under subclause (l) of this clause unless the contractor concerned has noted on the prescription the quantity and description of the diluent dispensed.
15. Water-(l) Where the term "aqua" is used in a preparation without qualification, it shall be interpreted to mean wholesome drinking water. (2) Wholesome drinking water shall not be an ingredient bearing a charge on a prescription.
16. Payment for bulk supply orders-(I) Subject to subclauses (2) and (3) of this clause, there shall be made for items supplied on bulk. supply orders the following payments: (a) For items (other than insulin preparations) listed in the Prescription Pricing Schedules, the selling price, plus 17.37 percent: (b) For items (other than insulin preparations) not so listed, the price charged to the contractor, plus 30.63 percent: (c) For insulin preparations, the price charged to the contractor, plus 20 percent. (2) No payment shall be made for containers supplied with items ordered on a bull supply order. (3) Subject to subclause (4) of this clause, no payment shall be made for a professional fee in respect of items so ordered. (4) There shall be payable in respect of items so ordered compounded by the contractor the fee specified in the Third Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules, less 10 percent.
17. Payment for practitioners' supply orders-(l) There shall be made for items supplied on practitioners' supply orders the following payments: (a) The total selling price of those items: (b) Every time a professional fee is paid in respect of any such item, the average container charge specified in the Second Schedule to the Prescription Pricing Schedules: (c) The appropriate professional fee as set out in the Prescription Pricing Schedules. 930 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
(2) For the purposes of subclause (1) (c) of this clause, the appropriate professional fee in respect of any item dispensed shall be- (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 Prescription 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: (h) For all items (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 items extemporaneously compounded by the contractor, the appropriate professional fee specified in the Third Schedule to those Schedules: (d) For multiple packs of items 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.
18. Rectified spirit-When ethanol is prescribed for use in pharmaceutical requirements that are used as external preparations, payment shall be made only for industrial methylated spirits, unless the practitioner has specified that rectified spirit is to be used.
PART III MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 19. Claims on Department-(l) Pursuant to regulations 14 and 15 of the regulations, a contractor may submit claims for payment in respect of pharmaceutical requirements supplied by him during half-monthly or monthly periods. (2) Subject to subclause (3) of this clause, where a claim for payment in respect of pharmaceutical requirements supplied by him 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 he has a reasonable excuse for his 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 a prescription specifies that requirements are to be supplied for a period not exceeding 3 months and is fulfilled 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) 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. 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 931
20. Allergy treatment sets-(l) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, payment in respect of an allergy treatment set allowed under this direction shall be the amount specified from time to time in the Prescription Pricing Schedules or the amount approved from time to time by the Direct0r 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 supplied by him shall be the amount approved from time to time by the Director-General.
21. Payment for 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 fonn supplied by the Department and shall specifY the patient's name and address, details of the pharmaceutical requirements supplied, and the date of supply_ (3) Payment shall be computed by adding together the cost price of the requirements, 15 percent ofthe cost price, and the appropriate professional fee_
22. Payment for plastic syringes-Payment to a contractor in respect of plastic syringes allowed under the Schedule to this direction shall be computed by adding together the cost price of the requirements, 15 percent of that cost price, the appropriate professional fee, and the average container charge.
28. Payment for intravenous fluids-Payment to a contractor in respect of the types of intravenous fluids allowed under the Schedule to this direction shall be the amount of the allowance specified from time to time in the Prescription Pricing Schedules or the sum approved from time to time by the Director-General_
24:. Payment for anaesthetic gases-Payment to a practitioner or a licensed hospital in respect of a gas specified in the Schedule to this direction shall be at the rate of $4.00 for each occasion when an anaesthetic is administered containing that gas; but if an anaesthetic contains more than one gas specified in the Schedule to this direction, payment shall be made in respect only of one gas contained in that anaesthetic as if that one gas and no other gas were used on that occasion_
25. Period and quantity of supply where prescription written by medical practitioner-In the case of a prescription for a pharmaceutical requirement (other than an oral contraceptive) written by a medical practitioner, 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 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 furtherJeriod not exceeding 5 days: (b) Notwithstanding paragraph ( of this clause, where the medical practitioner prescribes a pharmaceutical requirement sr.ecified in the Schedule to this direction as being subject to 'antibiotic restriction", payment maybe made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for a period not 932 Drug Tariff 1984 19841180
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 prescription is endorsed "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 medical practitioner 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 greater quantity is required to be dispensed: (c) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the practitioner, being of the opinion that a quantity of the requirement greater than that sufficient to provide treatment for 5 days but less than that necessary to provide treatment for 1 month is required, endorses the prescription with the words "extended supply", and specifies in it the quantity required or the period for which treatment is required, payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed: (d) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the practitioner, being of the opinion that extended treatment is necessary for a period of 1 month or more and that the use of the requirement without medical supervision during that period will involve no danger, endorses the prescription with the words "extended supply", and specifies in it the period for which treatment is required, payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed if that quantity does not exceed that necessary to provide treatment for 1 month in the case of a Class B controlled drug or 3 months in any other case; but where a patient is receiving an extended supply of a requirement, that requirement shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless- (i) The medical practitioner 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 greater quantity is required to be dispensed: (e) 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: (f) 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 endorsed "extended supply", 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 may be made accordingly. 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 933
26. Period and quantity of supply in respect of prescriptions for oral contraceptives-In the case of a prescription for a phannaceutical requirement that is an oral contraceptive, the following provisions shall apply: (a) Payment shall be made on only those prescriptions endorsed by the medical practitioner concerned with the words "extended supply": (b) The medical practitioner concerned shall specifY in the prescription the period of treattnent for which the requirement is to be supplied (not exceeding 6 months) and payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed: (cl Subject to paragraph (e) 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: (d) Subject to paragraph (e) of this clause, where a period exceeding 3 months or more has so been specified, the requirement shall be dispensed- (i) Where the practitioner 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 he has not so endorsed the prescription, in one lot sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months and one further lot: (e) 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 eifect, the requirement shall be dispensed in such lots as the contractor thinks fit: (f) 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 treattnent for 3 months, after 4 months; and (ii) Where the first lot was not sufficient to provide treattnent for 3 months, after 6 months- from the date of first dispensing shall cease to be a charge to the Departtnent; 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.
27. Period and quantity of supply when prescription written by dentist-In the case of a prescription for a pharmaceutical 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 that requirement is a controlled drug; and (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: 934 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the dentist prescribes a phannaceutical requirement specified in the Schedule to this direction 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 endorses the prescription with the words "extended supply" and specifies on it the period for which that pharmaceutical 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 prescribing dentist endorses the prescription with a statement of the period for which each lot is to be dispens-ed; 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 tor 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-(l} Notwithstanding clauses 25 and 27 of this direction, if a practitioner orders a pharmaceutical requirement that is packed in collapsible tubes, dropper bottles, or other special containers from which it is not practicable to dispense lesser amOlmts, 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 of the requirement is specified in the prescription, to the smallest amount sufficient to provide the amount specified that it is practicable to dispense; 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. (2) If a practitioner orders, in an amount that does not coincide with the amou'it of a standard pack or any number of standard packs of the requirement, 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 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 935 prescribed in accordance with clause 25 or clause 27 of this direction, as the case may be) only if the contractor satisfies the Department that he has not been able to dispense the balance of that pack or of those packs.
29. Bulk supply orders-(1) 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 pharmaceutical requirements as he expects will be required for the treatment of persons who are under medical or dental supervision in that hospital or approved institution; but- (a) Payment shall not be made for any requirement that is specifically restricted in the Schedule to this direction: (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 (ji) The order is supported by a written requisition signed by a practitio:r).er. (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, a special bulk supply order form) supplied by the Department which- (a) Sets forth the pharmaceutical 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 by him. (3) The quantities ordered on a bulk supply order are to 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 he thinks proper, declare that any hospital or other approved institution shall not be entided to obtain supplies of pharmaceubcal 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.
so. Practitioner's supply orders-(1) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, a practitioner may obtain, pursuant to a practitioner's supply order, such pharmaceutical requirements as he expects to be required for personal administration to patients under his care, if the quantities ordered are reasonable for up to 1 month's supply in the conditions obtaining in his practice; but no payment will oe made for any pharmaceutical reqwrement that is specifically restricted in the Schedule to this direction. The practitioner may be called upon to justifY 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- 936 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
(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 pharmaceutical requirements (not being requirements that .~ay only .be supplie~ by a Hospital Board) that the practItIoner reqUIres at the tIme. Any order for a Class B controlled drug shall be written on a form to be supplied by the Department. (3) A practitioner may, except in exceptional circumstances, order only those pharmaceutical requirements that he requires to administer personally to a patient or requires for emergency use until a supply can be obtained by. theyatient -'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 he thinks proper, declare that any practitioner whose name is specified in the notice shall not be entitled to obtain supplies of pharmaceutical 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 miy in like manner be revoked. 81. Wholesale supply orders-(1) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, but subject to subclause (4) of this clause, a practitioner, or the licensee or manager of a licensed hospital, may obtain, pursuant to a wholesale supply order on a form to be supplied by the Department, any pharmaceutical requirement specified in the Schedule to this direction as being available 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 or, as the case may be, the licensee or manager; 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 pharmaceutical requirement obtained on a wholesale supply order shall be made at a rate not exceeding the wholesaler's selling price approved by the Secretary, and in respect of a quantity no greater than is sufficient to meet the reasonable needs of the practitioner, licensee, or manager 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 he thinks fit, declare that subclause (1) of this clause no longer applies to a specified practitioner or to a specified licensee or manager of a hospital as aforesaid; and in that case, until that notice is in like manner revoked, that subclause shall not apply to that practitioner or licensee or manager. 82. Endorsement of prescription with words "Approved condition"-(l) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, no medical practitioner shall endorse any prescription for a contraceptive with the words "Approved condition", or supply to any patient any contraceptive obtained on a supply order so endorsed, unless he is satisfied- (a) That there are medical grounds justifYing the supply of contraceptives to the patient concerned; or (b) That in all the circumstances it would be inappropriate for the patient concerned to be required to pay for the contraceptive. 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 937
(2) Where a medical practitioner is not satisfied that a patient has. attained the age of 16 years, he shall not endorse any prescription for a contraceptive for that patient with the words "Approved condition", or supply to that patient any contraceptive obtained on a supply order so endorsed, unless either- (a) The practitioner holds a written authority signed by a parent or guardian of the patient authorising the dispensing of the contraceptive directly to the patient; or (b) The prescription, with the concurrence or at the direction of the patient, requires the contraceptive to be dispensed only to a parent or guardian of the patient. (3) No medical practitioner shall endorse any prescription for a pharmaceutical requirement that is not a contraceptive with the words "Approved condition", or supply to any patient any pharmaceutical requirement obtained on a supply order so endorsed, unless the requirement is prescribed or supplied for therapeutic purposes.
88. Revocations and savings-(l) The Drug Tariff 1981" and the Drug Tariff 1981, Amendment No. 9t are hereby consequentially revoked. (2) Without limiting the provisions of the 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.
SCHEDULE LIST OF PHARMACEUTICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR WHICH PAYMENT IS ALLOWED OR CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED PART I-DEFINITIONS 1. "Anaesthetic gases" means that payment will be made to a practitioner who has administered the gas to a person (being neither a patient of a public hospital nor a person for whom the anaesthetic service has been provided either as part of a maternity benefit or as part of a dental benefit under the Social Security (Dental Benefits) Regulations 19831') if the amount specified in clause 22 of this direction has been credited to that person's account. 2. "Antibiotic restriction" means that payment for prescriptions for oral forms of the pharmaceutical requirement may be made only in accordance with clause 25 (b) or clause 27 (b) of this direction (as the case requires). 3. "Approved condition" means that payment will be made for the pharmaceutical requirement only if the prescription or order for it is endorsed with those words- (a) Written in the practitioner's own handwriting; or (b) Signed or initialled by him.
"S.R. 1981/1 71 tS.R. 1984/36 'S.R. 198311.11 938 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
SCHEDULE-continued 4. "Diabetic suprlies" means that the pharmaceutical requirement may be supplied free 0 charge on the production of 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. 5. "Diabetic syringes" means that payment may be made for up to 13 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 up to 1 plastic syringe with attached needle for every week's supply of insulin prescribed if the prescription for insulin calls for less than 3 months supply. 6. "Hospital Pharmacy" means that payment may be made only when the pharmaceutical requirement concerned is supplied by a Hospital Board to art outpatient (being for the purposes of this direction any person who is not an inmate of a public hospital) on the prescription of a practitioner. 7. "Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist" means that the pharmaceutical requirement concerned may be supplied free of charge only by a Hospital Board to a person who is not an inpatient of any public hospital under the coEtrol of that Board, and on the prescription of a specialist in dermatology. 8. "Hospital Pharmacy-specialist" means that the pharmaceutical requirement concerned may be supplied free of charge only by a Hospital Board to any ferson who is not an inpatient of a public hospital, on the prescription 0 a specialist, or, if the treatment of any such person with the requirement has been recommended by a specialist, on the prescription of a practitioner endorsed with the words 'recommended oy [Name of jpecia[ist and year of authoriJatwn]" written in the practitioner's own handwriting or signed (lr initialled by th.e 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. 9. "In combination" means that the pharmaceutical requirement concerned is allowed at the Department's expense only when included in a prescription in combination with other pharmaceutical requirements that are specified in this Schedule as being available otherwise than "in combination", and then only to the extent specified. 1O. "Intravenous fluids" means that payment may be made only to a contractor in respect of the cost to him of the pharmaceutical requirement and the professional fee, if the requirement is prescribed by a practitioner for the use of a patient on a renal dialysis unit at his own home. 1l. "Maternity hospital" means that payment shall be made only when the pharmaceutical requirement concerned is supplied pursuant to a bulk supply order to a maternity hospital licensed umfer the Hospitals Act 1957. 12. "Midwifery order" means that payment may be made only when the pharmaceutical requirement concerned 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 19841180 Drug Tariff 1984 939
SCHEDULE-continued 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. 13. "Retail Pharmacy-specialist" means that payment may be made only when the pharmaceutical requirement concerned 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 0/ speCialist and year 0/ 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. 14. "Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription" means that payment may be made only when the pharmaceutical requirement concerned is supplied on a prescription, or practitioner's supply order, signed by a specialist. 15. "Wholesale supply order" means that payment shall be made only when the pharmaceutical requirement is supplied pursuant to a wholesale supply order in accordance with clause 31 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.
PART II Availability
Phannaceutical Requirement Availability
Acacia In combination Acebutolol hydrochloride Acetazolamide and its salts Acetazolamide long acting capsules Acetic acid Acetic acid with boric acid, hydroxyquinoline sulphate and ricinoleic acid vaginal jelly Acetone .. (a) Not available on a practitioner's supply order (b) Not available on a bulk supply order Acetylcholine chloride eye drops Aciclovir eye ointment Retail Phannacy-specialist Aconite, belladonna, and chlorofonn liniment BPC 1968 Aconite liniment BPC 1968 .. Acriflavine Adrenaline not exceeding a strength of 0.5 percent with guanethidine sulphate eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Adrenaline eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Adrenaline acid tartrate Adrenaline acid tartrate aerosol inhaler Adrenaline acid tartrate with pilocarpine hydrochloride eye drops Retail Phannacy-specialist Adrenaline hydrochloride Adrenaline hydrochloride eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Alcuronium chloride injection Only on a wholesale supply order 940 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Alfacalcidol capsules and oral drops .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Alginic acid with magnesium trisilicate, aluminium hydroxide gel, dried, and sodium bicarbonate infant powder Alginic acid with magnesium trisilicate, aluminium hydroxide gel, dried, and sodium bicarbonate tablets Alkaline compound tablets {milk dextrin type} as approved by the Director-General Allantoin with sulphur, menthol, phenol and coal tar solution cream Allergy treatment sets as approved by the Director- General Allopurinol tablets .. Allyloestrenol Almond oil Aloes Aloxiprin tablets Alprenolol hydrochloride Alprenolol hydrochloride long acting tablets Alseroxylon Alseroxylon with pentaerythritol tetranitrate tablets Alum Alum and zinc dusting powder tor infants BPC 1968 Aluminium acetate solution BPC 1973 _ . Aluminium chloride Aluminium powder 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 dimethicone mixture 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 .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Amaranth solution .. Amethocaine hydrochloride .. Amethocaine hydrochloride single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Amiloride hydrochloride tablets Amiloride hydrochloride with hydro· chlorothiazide Aminacrine hydrochloride Aminobenzoic acid Aminocaproic acid .. Hospital Pharmacy-speciali.t Aminoglutethimide tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Aminophylline Aminophylline with aluminium hydroxide gel tablets Amitriptyline hydrochloride _ . Amitriptyline pamoate syrup 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 941
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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. Retail Phannacy-specialist Amoxycillin sodium only as injection .. Amoxycillin trihydrate (a) Antibiotic restriction (b) Except in any topical application Amphetamine sulphate Hospital Pharmacy Amphotericin Amphotericin lozenges Amphotericin injection Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Ampicillin sodium only as injection Amyl nitrite Amylobarbitone and its sodium salt (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription fonn payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Amylobarbitone sodium injection Amylobarbitone sodium with quinalbarbitone (a) Only on the prescription of a sodium capsules practitioner (b) On anyone prescription fonn payment wili be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Anise water In combination Antazoline hydrochloride Except in any topical application Antazoline phosphate with naphazoline hydrochloride eye drops Not exceeding 10 ml per pack Antazoline sulphate with naphazoline nitrate Apomorphine hydrochloride Ascorbic acid Not exceeding a strength of 100 mg per dose. Aprotinin Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Aqueous cream BP Aspirin Aspirin long acting tablets Aspirin with codeine phosphate tablets Aspirin 250 mg with paracetamol 250 mg and codeine phosphate 8 mg tablets Aspirin, soluble, tablets .. Aspirin, soluble, with codeine phosphate tablets, as approved by the Director-General Atenolol .. Atropine methonitrate Atropine sulphate Atropine sulphate single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Azatadine maleate as syrup and tablets Azathioprine Retail Phannacy-specialist 942 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Bacitracin and its ;a1ts with neomycin sulphate and polymyxin B sulphate proprietary preparations Baclofen tablets .. Retail Phannacy-specialist Bacitracin and its salts with neomycin sulphate in proprietary preparations Barbitone sodium (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Barium sulphate in extemporaneously compounded preparations Beclamide Beclomethasone dipropionate nasal spray and aerosol inhaler for nasal use Beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol of 50 mcg per dose for oral use Beclomethasone dipropionate capsules for oral inhalation Beeswax, white Beeswax, yellow Belladonna liquid extract BPe Belladonna liniment BPe 1968 Belladonna tincture BP Belladonna and ephedrine mixture for infants BPe Belladonna and ipecacuanha mixture for infants BPe Belladonna mixture for infants BPe Bendrofluazide Benserazide hydrochloride with levodopa capsules and tablets Bentonite Benzalkonium chloride tincture Benzathine penicillin injection Benzhexol hydrochloride Benzocaine Benzocaine ointment, compound BPe 1973 Benzocaine suppositories, compound NZF 1953 Benzoic acid Benzoic acid solution BP Benzoic acid ointment, compound BP .. Benzoin inhalation BP Benzoin tincture, BPe Benzoin tincture, compound, BP Benzoyl peroxide .. Benzoyl peroxide lotion with or without sulphur Benztropine mesylate injection Only on a practitioner's supply order Benztropine mesylate tablets Benzyl benzoate . . . . Benzyl benzoate application, BP Benzylpenicillin and its salts .. Except in any topical application unless such an application is elsewhere listed in this direction Benzylpenicillin sodium injection and eye drops Benzylpenicillin and its salts, with or without procaine penicillin, benethamine penicillin, or benzathine penicillin, for injection 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 943
SCHEDULE-continued PART II-continued Availability-continued
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Bephenium hydroxynaphthoate Betamethasone and its salts and esters, with or Retail Phannacy--specialist without neomycin sulphate when supplied in the fonn of proprietary eye preparations Betamethasone and its salts and esters, with or without neomycin sulphate when supplied in the fonn of proprietary ear or throat preparations Betamethasone with betarnethasone sodium phosphate, intra-articular injection Betamethasone dipropionate cream, ointment and scalp lotion Betamethasone sodium phosphate injection Only on a practitioner's supply order Betamethasone and its salts as tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Betamethasone sodium phosphate with or without naphazoline nitrate nasal preparations Betamethasone valerate with or without chlortetracycline hydrochloride or clioquinol or neomycin sulphate or gentamicin sulphate as skin preparations Betamethasone valerate scalp lotion Bethanidine sulphate Biperiden lactate injection Bisacodyl __ Bisacodyl solution __ Only on a wholesale supply order Bisacodyl solution in extemporaneously compounded preparations Bismuth carbonate _ _ _ _ Bismuth powder, compound BP Bismuth subgallate _ _ _ _ Bismuth subgallate, compound suppositories with hydrocortisone as approved by the Director General Bismuth subgallate suppositories, compound BP Bismuth subgallate, compound, ointment, and suppositories, as approved by the Director General Bismuth subnitrate Black currant syrup BP In combination Borax Boric acid Brilliant green Brilliant green and crystal violet paint BP Bromocriptine mesylate capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Bromocriptine mesylate tablets (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist; or (b) On the prescription of a medical practitioner if no more than 14 tablets, inclusive of repeats, are prescribed Brompheniramine maleate elixir, and long-acting tablets Buffered cream BP __ Bumetanide injection and tablets Bupivacaine hydrochloride with or without Only on a practitioner's supply order adrenaline Buprenorphine hydrochloride injection (a) Hospital Phannacy-specialist; or (b) On a practitioner's supply order Buprenorphine hydrochloride sublingual tablets Hospital Phannacy Busulphan ______- Retail Pharmacy-specialist 944 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Butobarbitone (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner. (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats. Cade oil Caffeine Caffeine iodide elixir BPC 1973 Caffeine with sodium iodide .. Cajuput oil 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 Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Calcitriol capsules .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist 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 Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Calcium gluconate .. Calcium gluconate with cafciferol tablets Calcium glucono·galacto·gluconate Calcium hydroxide .. Calcium lactate Calcium lactate·gluconate tablets Calcium polystyrene sulphonate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Calcium sodium lactate Camphor. Camphor liniment BPC Camphor liniment, ammoniated BPC 1968 Camphor spirit BPC 1959 Camphor water BPC 1968 Capreomycin injection Retail Phannacy-specialist Capsicum, ointment BPC Capsules, empty gelatin When dispensed with materials within this direction Captopril tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Caramel .. Caraway oil Caraway water In combination Carbachol Carbachol eye drops .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Carbamazepine syrup and tablets Carbaryl shampoo .. 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 945
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Carbenicillin aild its salts for injection Hospital Phannacy Carbenoxolone sodium tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Carbidopa with levodopa tablets Carbimazole Cardamom tincture, aromatic BP Cardamom tincture, compound BP Cascara elixir BP 1968 Cascara extract, liquid, BP .. Castor oil Castor oil single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Catechu tincture BP Cefaclor monohydrate capsules (a) Hospital Pharmacy; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Cefaclor monohydrate oral suspension Antibiotic restriction Cefamandole nafate injection Hospital Phannacy-specialist Cefoxitin sodium injection .. Hospital Phannacy-specialist Ceftriaxone sodium injection Hospital Phannacy-specialist Cefuroxime sodium injection Hospital Phannacy-specialist Cephalexin monohydrate (a) Hospital Pharmacy; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Cephalothin sodium mjection Hospital Phannacy Cephazolin sodium Hospital Pharmacy Cephadrine (a) Hospital Pharmacy; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Cetomacrogol 1000 Cetomacrogol cream BP Cetomacrogol emulsitying ointment BP CetomacrogQl emulsitying wax BP .. Cetostearyl alcohol Cetrimide powder .. Only on a prescnpuon for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo Cetrimide with chlorhexidine gluconate cream Maternity hospital only Cetyl alcohol Chalk Chalk mixture for infants, BP Chalk and opium mixture, aromatic BP Charcoal .. Chloral elixir for infants BP . . (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Chloral hydrate (a) Except in any proprietary liquid oral form, unless such a preparation is elsewhere listed in this direction (b) Only o~. the .prescription of a pracuuoner (cl On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats 946 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Chloral hydrate capsules (a) Only on the prescription ot a practitioner (b) On anyone prescnptlon form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Chloral mixture BP (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Chloral syrup B.P.C. 1968 (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Chlorambucil Retail Pharmacy-specialist Chloramphenicol, its salts and esters (a) Antibiotic restriction; and (b) Retail Pharmacy-specialist; or (c) As an ingredient of a chloramphenicol topical preparation listed in this direction Chloramphenicol ear drops .. Chloramphenicol ear insufflation Chloramphenicol eye drops .. Chloramphenicol eye ointment Chloramphenicol single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Chloramphenicol with hydrocortisone and its salts Retail Pharmacy-specialist as eye preparations ...... Chloramphenicol with myralact and cloponone pessaries Chloramphenicol with polymyxin B sulphate proprietary ear drops, eye drops and eye ointment Chlorbutol Chlorcyclizine hydrochloride Except in any topical application Chlordiazepoxide and its hydrochloride (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Chlorhexidine diacetate powder Only on a prescnptlon for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo Chlorhexidine gluconate (a) When prescribed (alone or in combination) for a patient on a renal dialysis unit at his own home; or (b) On a prescnptlOn for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo Chlorhexidine gluconate obstetric cream (a) Maternity hospital; or (b) Midwifery order (500 m!) 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 947
SCHEDULE-continued PART II-continued Availability - continued
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Chlorhexidine-gluconate solution 5 percent (a) Maternity hospital; or (b) Midwifery order (IOO m!) Chlorinated lime Chlorinated lime and boric acid solution BP Chlorinated soda solution, surgical BPC Chlormethiazole and its esters (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, indusive of any repeats Chlormethiazole edisylate intravenous infusion .. Chlorocresol Chloroform In combination for topical application or as an ingredient in a preparation for oral administration Chloroform and morphine tincture BP Chloroform spirit BP . . . . Chloroform water BP In combination Chloroquine phosphate Chloroquine sulphate Chlorothiazide .. Chlorouianisene Retail Pharmacy-specialist Chlorpheniramine maleate Except in any topical application Chlorpheniramine maleate long acting capsules and long acting tablets Chlorpromazine and its salts and esters Chlorpropamide Chlorprothixene Chlorquinaldol Chlortetracycline eye ointment Chlonetracycline suppositories. extemporaneously prepared Chlonetracycline hydrochloride proprietary cream, proprietary ointment and proprietary topical powder Chlortetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared Chlonhalidone . . . . Cholestyramine resin Retail Pharmacy-specialist Choline salicylate with cetalkonium chloride adhesive gel Choline theophyllinate Choline theophyllinate with guaiaphenesin tablets and elixir Chorionic gonadotrophin Chymotrypsin injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Cimetidine injection Cimetidine tablets .. (a) Only on a prescription with a daily dose not exceeding 400 mg; or (b) On a prescription with a daily dose exceeding 400 mg. in which case payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats, on anyone prescription form 948 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Cinchocaine hydrochloride Cinnamon oil In combination Cinnamon water In combination Citric acid Citronella oil In combination Clindamycin hydrochloride (a) Retail Phannacy-specialist; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Clindamycin palmitate hydrochloride syrup (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Clindamycin phosphate only as an injection Retail Phannacy-specialist Clindamycin phosphate as a proprietary topical solution Clioquinol Clobetasol propionate cream, ointment, and scalp lotion Clobetasone butyrate cream and ointment Clobetasone butyrate with or witbout neomycin Retail Phannacy-specialist sulphate as eye drops Clofazimine Clofibrate Retail Phannacy-specialist Clomiphene citrate tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist, only on a prescription for a female patient Clomipramine hydrochloride injection and tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Clonazepam Clonidine hydrochloride tablets and injection Clotrimazole skin cream, solution, vaginal cream and 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 Cocaine hydrochloride Except in any oral mixture Cocoa In combination Coconut oil In combination 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 In combination Colchicine Colchicum extract, liquid BP Colchicum and sodium salicylate mixture, BPC 1973 Colchicum tincture BP 1973 . Colestipol hydrochloride Retail Pharmacy-specialist Colistin and its salts and esters Hospital Pbarmacy-specialist Colistin sulphate with neomycin sulphate and hydrocortisone acetate eardrops Collodion, flexible . . . . Colophony Contraceptives, caps as approved by the Dirt'Ctor' Approved condition-only on a General wholesale supply order 19841180 Drug Tariff 1984 949
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Contraceptives, condoms as approved by the Approved condition-only on a Director-General prescription Contraceptives, condoms with a spennicidal agent, Approved condition-only on a as approved by the Director-General prescription Contraceptives, diaphragms as approved by the Approved condition-on a prescription Director-General or a practitioner's supply order Contraceptives, intra -uterine devices as approved Approved condition-only on a by the Director-General wholesale supply order Contraceptives, spennicidal agents as approved by Approved condition-on a prescription the Director-General together with applicator or a practitioner's supply order when specified Contrast media Only on a wholesale supply order Copper diagnostic tablets (aJ 36 tablet pack, or packs to be supplied (b) Not available on a bulk supply order Copper sulphate Copper and zinc sulphates lotion BPC Corticotrophin Hospital Phannacy Corticotrophin gelatin injection Hospital Pharmacy Corticotrophin zinc injection Hospital Pharmacy Cortisone acetate tablets Co-trimoxalOle Antibiotic restriction Cresol Crotamiton Crystal violet Cyclandelate Cyclizine, its salts and esters Cydopenthiazide Cydopentolate hydrochloride eye drops not exceeding I percent strength Cyclopentolate hydrochloride single dose eyedrops Only on a practitioners supply order not exceeding I percent strength Cyclophosphamide. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Cyproheptadine hydrochloride Except in any topical application Cytarabine Retail Pharmacy-specialist Danthron with poloxalkol capsules and oral liquid Dantrolene sodium capsules _ . Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dapsone Dapsone with pyrimethamine as tablets Debrisoquine sulphate tablets .. Demeclocycline hydrochloride capsules 150 mg_ Antibiotic restriction Deoxycortone and its esters. _ Desferrioxamine mesylate Hospital Pharmacy Desipramine hydrochloride Desmopressin nasal drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Desogestrel with ethinyloestradiol tablets Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Dettol solution (a) Maternity hospital; or (b) Midwifery order (lOO ml) Dexamethasone and its salts and esters, except Retail Pharmacy-specialist preparations listed elsewhere in this dir.. ction Dexamethasone as proprietary eye preparations Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dexamethasone with framycetin and gramicidin Retail Pharmacy-specialist proprietary eye preparations Dexamethasone with framycetin and gramicidin proprietary ear preparations Dexamethasone with neomycin sulphate and Retail Pharmacy-specialist polymyxin B sulphate as proprietary eye preparations Dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection Only on a wholesale supply order
Con. Regs.-14B 950 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
SCHEDULE-continued PART II-continued Availability - continued ------+------Phannaceutical Requirement Availability -Dexamphetamine .ulphate .. HospllalPhannacy Dextran sulphate .. (a) On a wholesale supply order (b) Intravenous fluids Dextrochlorpheniramine maleate Except in any topical application Dextrochlorpheniramine maleate long acting tablets Dextromoramide tartrate ...... Dextropropoxyphene napsylate as capsules Dextropropoxyphene hydrochlonde with paracetamol Capsules Dextropropoxyphene napsylate with paracetamol tablets Dextrose .. In combination Dextrose, anhydrous as an ingredient of an injection Dextrose injection .. Available, all strene;tbs, in containers not exceeding 50 mT capacity, in cases of hypoglycaemia Dextrose intravenous solutions (sterile) (a) On a wholesale supply order (b) Intravenous fluids Diazepam capsules, syrup and tablets .. (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription fonn payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient fOr !l0 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Diazepam injection and suppositories .. Diazepam rectal tubes . . . . Only on a practitioner's supply order Dibromopropamidine isethionate Diclofenac soduim long·acting tablets and tablets Dicophane ...... Dicophane application BPC 197!1 .. Dicophane dusting·powder BPC 197!1 .. Dicyclomine hydrochloride long acting tablets, tablets and syrup Dienoestrol .. Dienoestrol cream, together with applicator when specified Diethylcarbamazine citrate ...... Diftucortolone valerate Diftuconolone valerate with chIorquinaldol cream Diftunisal tablets ...... ~~~ ~esylate·· Dihydrotachysterol Di·iodohydroxyquinoline compound vaginal tablets Dill water ...... Dimenhydrinate Dimercaprol Dimethicone Dimethicone cream BPC Dimethicone creams as approved by the Director· General DioctyI sodium sulphosuccinate enema concentrate and tablets Dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate with bisacodyl suppositories Dioctyl sodium sillphosuccinate with danthron tablets 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 951
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Diphemanil methylsulphate powder when prescribed fo: amp~tees ~ith artificial ~~bs, or for paraplegIc panehts, If the prescnpnon IS endorsed accordingly Diphenhydramine hydrochloride Except in any topical application Diphenoxylate hydrochloride with atropine sulphate only as tablets Diphenylpyraline hydrochloride long acting capsules 5 mg, long acting tablets 5 mg, and syrup Dipivefrin hydrochloride eye drops in packs of Retail Phannacy-specialist 7.5 ml Dipotassium hydrogen phosphate Dipyridamole injection tablets and long-acting Retail Phannacy-specialist capsules Disopyramide and its phospate as capsules or long- acting tables Disopyramide phosphate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dispersa wax DistigIlline bromide Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Disulfiram Dithranol only in extemporaneously compounded preparations Dithranol paste, strong BPe __ Dithranol paste, weak BPe __ Dothiepin bydrochloride __ Doxepin hydrochloride capsules and tablets Doxycycline hydrochloride capsules 100 mg, tablets Antibiotic restriction 100 mg and injection Droperidol ______Only on a practitioner's supply order Drostanolone propionate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dydrogesterone tablets Retail Phannacy-specialist Econazole nitrate __ Ecothiophate iodide Retail Phannacy-specialist Edrophonium chloride Electrolyte powder, for solution for oral use as approved by the Director-General Electrolyte solution for oral use (e_g_, Darrow's According to a prescribed fonnula, or solution non-sterile; Hartmarm's solution, non by tide sterile) Emepronium carrageenate tablets Retail Phannacy-specialist Emetine hydrochloride EmulsifYing wax BP EmulsifYing ointtnent BP Ephedrine hydrochloride Ephedrine hydrochloride elixir BP Ephedrine nasal drops BPe Epicillin __ Antibiotic restriction 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 and10ng-actinJ;. tablets Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine tablets Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine and cyclizine hydrochloride 952 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine citrate and diphenhydramine hydrochloride Erythromycin and its salts and esters .. (a) Antibiotic restriction (b) Except in any topical application unless such an application is elsewhere listed in this direction Erythromycin eye drops Ethacrynic add .. Ethambutol Retail Pharmacy-specialist Ethambutol with isoniazid tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Ethamivan Ethanol 90 percent In combination Ethanol for injection Ethanolamine Ether for anaesthetic purposes Only on a wholesale supply order Ether, solvent BPC. . . . (a) Not available on a practitioner's supply order (b) Not available on a bulk supply order Ethinyloestradiol .. Ethinyloestradiol with levonorgestrel Approved condition---QIl a prescription or a practitioner's supply order Ethinyloestradiol with lynoestrenol tablets Approved condition-ona prescription or a practitioner's supply order Ethinyloestradiol with methyltestosterone tablets Ethinyloestradiol with norethisterone .. Approved condition-on a prescription or a practitioner's supply order Ethisterone Ethosuximide Ethotoin .. Ethyl chloride Only on a wholesale supply order Ethylestrenol Retail Pharmacy-specialist EthylnoradrenaJine hydrochloride injection Ethynodiol diacetate tablets . . . . Approved condition-on a prescription or a practitioner's supply order Ethynodiol diacetate with ethinyloestradiol Approved condition-on a prescription or a practitioner's supply order Ethynodiol diacetate with mestranol Approved condition-on a prescription or a practitioner's supply order Etidronate diSodium tablets .. Retail Pharmacy-speciaIist Etretinate car.sules .. Hospital Phamlacy-dermatologist Eucalyptus oil .. Fenoprofen calcium capsules of 300 mg and tablets of 600 mg Fenoterol hydrobromide as capsules for oral inhalation, aerosol inhaler, oral liquid, and solution Fentanyl citrate (a) On a practitioner's supply order (b) On a bulk supply order Ferric ammonium citrate Ferric ammonium citrate mixture BPC Ferric anunonium cilrate mixture for infants BPC Ferric chloride solution BPC 1973 Ferric chloride solution, stron&_ BPC 1973 Ferrous fumarate with folic aad tablets Ferrous gluconate .. Ferrous phosphate with quinine aIld strychnine syrup BPC 1968 Ferrous phosphate syrup, compound BPC 1968 Ferrous sulphate ...... 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 953
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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 Figs, syrup, compound BPC Fish liver oil ointment Flucloxacillin sodium capsules and syrup Antibiotic restriction Flucytosine infusion and tablets .. Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Fludrocortisone tablets of 0.1 mg strenth Fludrocortisone tablets of 1 mg strength Retail Phannacy-specialist Flumethasone pivalate with clioquinol ear drops and skin cream Flunisolide nasal spray Flunitrazepam injection Fluocinolone acetonide scalp lotion Fluocinolone acetonide not exceeding 0.025 percent strength as skin preparations Fluocinonide cream Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone pivalate and clemizole hexachlorophenate cream and ointment Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone pivalate cream and ointment Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone pivalate, cinchocaine hydrochloride, hexachlorophane, and demizole undecylate ointment and suppositories Fluocortolone with fluocortolone hexanoate ointment Fluocortolone with fluocortolone hexanoate and clemizole hexachlorophenate ointment Fluopromazine hydrochloride Fluorescein sodium Fluorescein sodium single dose eye drops .. Only a practitioner's supply order Fluorescein sodium with lignocaine hydrochloride Only on a practitioner's supply order single dose eye drops Fluorometholone eye drops .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluorometholone with neomycin sulphate eye Retail Pharmacy-specialist drops Fluorouracil topical solution and topical cream .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Fluorouracil sodium injection and oral solution Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluoxymesterone .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Flupenthixol decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluphenazine decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluphenazine enanthate injection Retail Phannacy-specialist Fluphenazine hydrochloride .. Flurbiprofen tablets .. Folic acid and its sodium salt Formaldehyde solution (a) Not available on a practitioner's supply order (b) Not available on a bulk supply order Framycetin sulphate tablets .. (a) Hospital Pharmacy; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Framycetin sulphate for injection only Hospital Pharmacy Framycetin sulphate proprietary eye and ear preparations 954 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Framycetin sulphate with gramicidin ointment and I cream Frusemide injection, tablets of 40 mg strength and Except in any strength elsewhere listed oral liquids in this direction Frusemide infusion 250 mg and tablets exceeding Retail Pharmacy-specialist 40 mg strength Furazolidone tablets Fusidic acid, and its salts, except preparations Hospital Phannacy-specialist elsewhere listed in this direction Fusidic acid cream and gel __ Fusidic acid, sodium salt ointment Gallamine triethiodide Only on a wholesale supply order Gemma benzene hexachloride Gamma benzene hexachloride application, BP Gelatin Gelsemium tincture BPC 1973 Gentamicin sulphate cream and ointment Gentamicin sulphate injection Hospital Pharmacy Gentian infusion, compound Gentian tincture, compound BPC 1973 Gentian alkaline mixture BP Gentian mixture, acid, wit.1J. nux vomica, BPC 1973 Gentian mixture, alkaline, with phenobarbitone BPC 1973 Gentian mixture, acid, BPC 1973 Gentian mixture, alkaline, with nux vomica BPC 1973 Gentian and rhubarb mixture BPC 1973 Ginger syrup BPC __ Ginger tincture weak BP Ginger tincture, strong BP Glibenclamide Glucagon hydrochloride injection Glucose-oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips Not available on a bulk supply order and sticks as approved by the Director-General (urine testing) Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist; or for insulin using diabetics as approved by the (b) On a practitioner's supply order Director-General (blood testing) Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips (a) Not available on a practitioner's for insulin using diabetics as approved by the supply order Director-General (blood testing) (b) Not available on a bulk supply order Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic sticks Not available on a bulk supply order and sodium nitroprusside with aminoacetic acid diagnostic sticks as approved by the Director General Glycerol __ Glycerol suppositories (a) On the prescription of a practitioner (b) Midwifery order (36 pack of 4 g strength) (cl On a practitioner's supply order (d) On a bulk supply order Glycerorhosphates syrup, compound BPC 1963 Glycery trinitrate tablets and ointment __ Glyceryl trinitrate transdermal delivery system 5 mg Glycopyrronimn bromide tablets _ _ _ _ Glynudine ______Griseofulvin 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 955
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Guaiaphenesin with theophylline capsules and oral liquid Guanethidine sulphate Halcinonide Halibut-liver oil Haloperidol Halothane On a wholesale supply order Halquinol with tar _ . Hamamelis extract, dry BPC Hamamelis extract, liquid BPC 1973 Hamamelis water __ In combination Hamamelis and zinc oxide suppositories BPC 1973 Heparin sodium Heparinoid hyaluronidase ointment Midwifery order (J 4 g) Hexachlorophane powder Only on a prescription for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo Hexachlorophane soap Maternity hospital only Hexamine Hexamine hippurate tablets __ Hexamine mandelate tablets Hexetidine vaginal application Hexoprenaline hydrochloride solution HexOjrenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler, injection, an tablets Hexylresorcinol Homatropine hydrobromide Homatropine hydrobromide single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Honey In combination Hyaluronidase Hydralazine hydrochloride Hydrochloric acid ._ Hydrocortisone and hydrocortisone acetate Hospital Pharmacy-specialist including injections and products that are not elsewhere listed in this direction 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 Retail Pharmacy-specialist in combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when supplied as eye preparations Hydrocortisone and its salts and esters alone or in combination with other pharmaceutical 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 956 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Hydrocortisone with natamycin and neomycin skin preparations 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 orrler injection Hydrocortisone sodium succinate tablets 2.5 mg Hydrogen peroxide solution. . . . Hydroxocobalamin only as an injection Hydroxychloroquine sulphate Hydroxyzine hydrochloride .. Hospital Pharmacy Hyoscine hydrobromide Hyoscine hydrobromide single dose eyedrops Only on a practitioner'S supply order Hyoscine methohromide Hyoscir,e N·butylbromide injection and tablets .. Hyoscyamus tincture BP HypromeUose eye drops Ibuprofen tablets .. Ichthammol Ichthammol glycerin BPC Ichthammol ointment BP Idoxuridine eye preparations Retail Pharmacy-specialist Idoxuridine skin ointment .. Idoxuridine topical solution .. Idoxuridine with dimethyl sulphoxide if Not exceeding 10 ml per prescription extemporaneously prepar"d form Imipramine hydrochloride tablets and long·acting capsules Indigo carmine Indomethacin capsules, long· acting capsules and Except in any topical application suppositories _ Injections suppliec1 in cartridge vial limited to pharmaceutical requirements within this .direction Insulin injection lOO units per ml (Other than human insulin) Insulin biphasic injection 100 units per ml (Other than human insulin) Insulin isophane injection 100 units per ml (Other than human insulin) Insulin isophane with insulin neutral injection 100 (Other than human insulin) units per ml Insulin neutral injection 1 00 units per ml (Other than human insulin) Insulin zinc suspension injection 100 units per ml (Other than human insulin) Insulin zinc suspension amorphous injection lOO (Other than human insulin) units per ml Insulin zinc suspension crystalline injection 100 (Other than human insulin) units per ml Intravenous fluids (electrolyte) (a) On a wholesale supply order (h) Intravenous fluids Intravenous fluids (plasma substitute) .. (a) On a wholesale supply order (h) Intravenous fluids Intravenous fluids (nutrient) .. (a) On a wholesale supply order (h) Intravenous fluids Iodine Except in any proprietary preparation Iodine ointment, non·staining BPC 1968 .. Iodine ointment with methyl salicylate non-staining BPC 1968 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 957
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Iodine paint, compound BPC 1968 Iodine solution, aqueous BP __ Iodine solution, weak BP __ (a) On the prescription of a practitioner (b) Midwifery order (50 mD (c) On a practitioner's supply order (d) On a bulk supply order Ipecacuanha, prepared BP Ipecacuanha extract liquid BP Ipecacuanha tincture BP Ipecacuanha opiate mixture, paediatric BPC 1973 Ipecacuanha mixture for infants BPC 1973 Ipecacuanha paediatric emetic draught BPC __ Ipecacuanha .. nd 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 Iron carbohydrate complex intra-muscular injection as approved by the Director-General Iron polymaltose injection _ _ _ _ Iron polysaccharide complex elixir __ Irrigating solutions, sterile proprietary Only on a wholesale supply order Isocarboxazid ______Isoconazole nitrate skin cream and vaginal tablets Isoetharine hydrochloride ______Isoniazid __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Isoniazid with rifampicin Retail Pharmacy-specialist Isoprenaline hydrochloride Isoprenaline hydrochloride aerosol inhaler Isoprenaline hydrochloride long acting tablets Isoprenaline hydrochloride with phenylephrine bitartrate aerosol inhaler Isoprenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler __ Isopropamide iodide liquid and tablets Isopropyl alcohol __ In combination Isopropyl myristate with mineral oil and synthetic Only on the prescription of a medical pine needle oil bath oil practitioner Isotretinoin capsules Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist Kanamycin sulphate Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Kaolin, colloidal Kaolin and morphine mixture BP Kaolin_ heavy Kaolin, light Kaolin mixture BP __ Kaolin mixture for infants BP Kaolin, poultice BP 1968 Kaolin with neomycin sulphate and pectin (a) Hospital Pharmacy; and suspension (b) Antibiotic resuiction Ketamine hydrochloride injection Only on a wholesale supply order Ketoconazole tablets __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Ketoprofen capsules, long-acting capsules and suppositories Labetalol hydrochloride Lachesine chloride __ Lactic acid Lactose __ In combination Lactulose __ Hospital Pharmacy Laevulose BP In combination Lard, benzoinated 958 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Lavender oil In combination Lavender oil, spike In combination Lead acetate Lead lotion BPC 1973 Lead lotion, compound BNF 1963 Lead lotion, evaporating BPe 1973 Lead subacetate solution, dilute BPe 1973 Lead subacetate solution, strong BPe 1973 Lemon oil In combination Lemon spirit Lemon syrup BP Levodopa Levonorgestrel Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Lignocaine hydrochloride with chlorhexidine gluconate jelly Lignocaine hydrochloride with or without adrenaline or noradrenaline Lincomycin hydrochloride (a) Except in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Liothyronine sodium Liquorice extract BPC Liquorice extract, dry, compound, tablets, as approved by the Director-General Liquorice extract, liquid BP .. Lithium carbonate tablets .. Lobelia tincture, ethereal BPC 1973 Lobelia and stramonium mixture, compound BPe 1973 Loperamide hydrochoride only as capsules Lorazepam tablets .. (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescnpuon fonn payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Lonnetazepam tablets (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription fonn payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Loxapine succinate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Lymecycline capsules 150 mg and capsules 300 mg Antibiotic restriction 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 BPe Magnesium chloride Magnesium hydroxide Magnesium hydroxide mixture BP Magnesium oxide, light 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 959
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Magnesiwn sulphate Magnesiwn sulphate, dried Magnesiwn sulphate mixture RP Magnesiwn sulphate paste BPC Magnesiwn trisilicate Magnesium trisilicate mixture BP Magnesiwn trisilicate with aluminium hydroxide gel, dried tablets, as approved by the Director General Magnesiwn trisilicate and belladonna mixture BPC Magnesiwn trisilicate powder, compound BP Maizeoil ______Maldison shampoo Malt extract BPC In combmation Malt extract, liquid BPC 1954 In combination Malt extract with cod-liver oil BPC Malt extract with halibut-liver oil BPC 1973 Malt extract with vitamins __ Mannito __ (a) On a wholesale supply order (b) Intravenous fluids Maprotiline hydrochloride tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Massa estarinwn suppository base Mebendazole tablets __ Only on a prescription not exceeding 6 tablets per person Mebhydrolin napadisylate Except in any topical application Mebhydrolin napadisylate long acting tablets Mecillinam injection Medroxyprogesterone acetate injection Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets _ _ .. Medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets exceeding Retail Pharmacy-specialist 5 mg strength Medrysone eye drops Retail Pharmacy--specialist Mefenamic acid capsules Only on a prescription for a female patient, provided that no more than 80 capsules per month (with a maximwn of 8 months supply) are prescribed Mefiuside tablets _. Megestrol acetate tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Melphalan __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Menaphthone sodiwn bisulphate Menaphthone sodiwn diphosphate Menthol .. Menthol and benzoin inhalation BP Menthol and eucalyptus inhalation BP Menthol inhalation BNF 1968 Mepivacaine hydrochloride injection Only on a practitioner's supply order Meprobamate __ Mepyramine maleate Except in any topical application Mercaptopurine Retail Pharmacy-specialist Mercuric chloride Mercuric iodide, red Mercuric nitrate ointment, dilute BPC 1959 Mercuric oxide eye ointment Mercuric oxide, yellow Mercuric oxycyanide Mercurochrome Mercury, ammoniated 960 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Mercury, ammoniated, and coal tar ointment BPC Mercury, ammoniated, and coal tar with salicylic acid ointment BPC Mesterolone tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Metaraminol tartrate Metformin hydrochloride Methadone hydrochloride Methadone linctus BPC Methallenoestril Methdilazine hydrochloride Except in any topical application Methicillin sodium .. Hospital Pharmacy Methohexitone sodium injection, with or without Only on a wholesale supply order water for injection Methotrexate Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Methotrexate sodium Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Methotrimeprazine and its salts and esters Methoxsalen Retail Pharrnacy-specialist Methoxyflurane Only on a wholesale supply order Methyclothiazide tablets Methyl hydroxy benzoate Methyl salicylate Methyl salicylate liniment BP Methyl salicylate ointment BP Methyl salicylate ointment, compound BPC Methyl salicylate ointment, dilute BPC 1949 Methylcellulose In combination Methylcellulose sterile eye drops Methyldopa Methyldopa with hydrochlorothiazide tablets Methylene blue Methylphenidate hydrochloride Hospital Pharmacy Methylprednisolone and its salts and esters except Retail Pharmacy-specialist preparations elsewhere listed in this direction Methylprednisolone acetate injection, with or without lignocaine hydrochloride Methylprednisolone sodium succinate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Methysergide dimaleate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Metoclopramide hydrochloride Metoprolol tartrate Metoprolol tartrate long-acting tablets Metronidazole infusion Only on a wholesale supply order Metronidazole suppositories and tablets Metronidazole, benzoyl, oral suspension Metyrapone capsules ...... Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Mexiletine hydrochloride capsules and long acting capsules Mianserin hydrochloride tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Miconazole tincture and oral gel Miconazole nitrate lotion, powder, pessaries, skin cream and vaginal cream Minocycline hydrochloride capsules 100 mg Antibiotic restriction Monostearin, self-emulsifYing BPC Morphine sulphate with atropine sulphate injection Morphine hydrochloride Morphine sulphate .. Mouth-wash solution tablets BP Mucilaginous laxatives dry as approved by the Director-General 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 961
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Mucopolysaccharide polysulphuric acid ester Midwifery order (I4g_) ointment Mustine hydrochloride injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Myrrh tincture BPC Nalidixic acid Nalorphine hydrobromide __ Naloxone hydrochloride injection Only on a practitioner's supply order Nandrolone decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Naphazoline hydrochloride __ N aphazoline nitrate Naproxen oral liquid, suppositories and tablets __ Naproxen sodium tablets ______Natamycin Except suspension exceeding I percent strength Needles, non-disposable as approved by the Diabetic supplies Director-General Nefopam hydrochloride injection (a) Hospital Pharmacr-specialist; or (b) On a practitioner s supply order Nefopam hydrochloride tablets Neomycin and its salts for oral or parenteral use (aJ Hospital Pharmacy; and (b) Antibiotic restriction Neomycin and its salts for topical use Neomycin and its salts as eye drops __ Neomycin and its salts as eye ointment N~mycin sulphate _with gramicidin topical omtment and eye omtment Neomycin sulphate with polymyxin B sulphate and Only on a practitioner's supply order bacitracin zinc aerosol Neomycin sulphate single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Neostigmine bromide Neostigmine methylsulphate __ Niclosamide tablets Nicotinamide Not exceeding a strength of 50 mg per dose Nicotinic acid Nicotinyl alcohol long-acting tablets of 150 mg and tablets Nifedipine capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Nimorazole tablets __ Nitrazepam capsules and tablets (aJ Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Nitric acid Nitrofurantoin Nitrofurazone cream and ointment Nitrous oxide Anaesthetic gases Noradrenaline acid tartrate __ Norethisterone tablets 0_35 mg Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Norethisterone tablets 5 mg __ Norethisterone with mestranol tablets Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Norethisterone acetate 962 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Norethisterone acetate with ethinyloestradiol Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Norethynodrel with mestranol Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Norgestrel with ethinyloestradiol Approved condition-on a prescription or practitioner's supply order Nortriptyline hydrochloride .. Noscapine linctus BP Nux vomica acid mixture BPC 1973 Nux vomica elixir BPC 1973 Nux vomica tincture BP Nystatin .. Except sterile powder 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 Oestrogens, conjugated equine, tablets and vaginal cream Oestrone .. Except in any topical application Oestrone pessaries, suppositories, and nasal preparations Oily cream BPC Oleic acid Olive oil .. (a) On the prescription of a practitioner (b) Midwifery order (IOO ml) (cl Maternity hospital -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 Ornidazole injection and oral tablets .. Ornipressin (a) On a practitioner's supply order (b) On a bulk supply order Orphenadrine citrate tablets and injection Orphenadrine hydrochloride tablets .. Ortho·tolidine, compound, diagnostic sticks as approved by the Director-General Oxazepam tablets .. (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescnptlon form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days' treatment, inclusive of any repeats 19841180 Drug Tariff 1984 963
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Oxprenolol hydrochloride Oxprenolol hydrochloride long-acting tablets Oxybuprocaine hydrochloride single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Oxygen ______.. Anaesthetic gases Oxymetazoline hydrochloride nasal preparations Oxymetholone Retail Pharmacy-specialist Oxyphencyclimine hydrochloride tablets Oxytetracycline suppositories, extemporaneously prepared Oxytetracycline hydrochloride capsules 250 mg Antibiotic restriction Oxytetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements, when extemporaneously prepared Oxytocin __ Oxytocin with ergometrine maleate injection Pancreatic enzyme preparations as approved by the Retail Pharmacy-specialist Director-General Pancreatic enzyme preparations as approved by the Director-General Panruronium bromide injection Only on a wholesale supply order Papaveretum Papaveretum with hyoscine hydrobromide injection Papaverine hydrochloride Paracetamol Except proprietary oral drops Paracetamol elixir for infants BP Paracetamol with codeine phosphate tablets Paraffin, liquid, emulsion with cascara BPC 1973 Paraffin, hard Paraffin, liquid _ _ _ _ Paraffin, liquid emulsion BP .. Paraffin liquid, lillht . . . . __ Paraffin liquid and magnesium hydroxide emulsion BP Paraffin liquid and phenolphthalein emulsion BP Paraffin liquid, light, as a bath oil . . __ Only on the prescription of a medical practitioner Paraffin liquid with paraffin white soli: eye ointment Paraffin, white, soft _ _ _ . . _ Paraffin, yellow, soli: Paraffin ointment, BP 1963 Paraldehyde Paramethadione Peanut oil (a) On the prescription of a practitioner (b) Midwifery order (lOO mU Penicillamine tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist I'entaerythritol tetranitrate long-acting tablets and tablets _. Pentagastrin injection Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Pentazocine and its salts as injection and tablets Hospital Pharmacy, or on a practitioner's supply order Peppermint emulsion concentrated BP Peppermint oil . _ . _ .. In combination Peppermint spirit __ Peppermint water __ In combination Perhexiline maleate tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pericyazine Perphenazine Peru balsam 964 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Pethidine hydrochloride Phenazone Phenelzine sulphate Pheniramine and its salts and esters Except in any topical application Pheniramine maleate long-acting tablets 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 Phenoperidine hydrochloride (a) On a practitioner's supply order (b) On a bulk supply order Phenoxybenzamine capsules __ Phenoxyethanol Phenoxymethylpenicillin potassium salt (a) Except in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Phenoxymethylpenicillin hydrabamine (a) Except in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Phentolamine mesylate Phenylephrine hydrochloride Phenylephrine hydrochloride single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Phenylephrine hydrochloride with zinc sulphate eye drops Phenylmercuric acetate Ph<'nylmercuric nitrate Phenytoin tablets __ Phenytoin sodium Phenytoin sodium with phenobarbitone sodium tablets Pholcodine Pholcodine linctus BP pholcodine linctus, strong BPC Phosphoric acid Phthalylsulphathiazole Antibiotic restriction Physostigmine salicylate Phytomenadione Pilocarpine eye inserts Retail Pharmacy-sp<'cialist Pilocarpine hydrochloride Pilocarpine nitrate _ Pilocarpine nitrate single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Pimozide tablets Retail Pharmacy-sp<'cialist Pindolol injection and tablets Piperazine citrate elixir BP Piperonyl butoxide with pyrethrins and II shampoo Pipothiazine palmitate injection Retail Pharmacy-sp<'cialist Piroxicam capsules __ Pituitary (posterior lobe) insuffiation Pivampicillin and its salts __ (a) Except in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Pivmecillinam hydrochloride Antibiotic restriction Pizotifen __ Podophyllum resin_ 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 965
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Podophyllin compound paint BP Polawax __ Poloxalkol pacdiatric drops __ Polyestradiol phosphate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Polymyxin B sulphate For inj<'ction only 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 eye drops and powders polynoxylin gel ______Polysorbate 80 BP __ Polyvinyl alcohol eye drops Potassium acid phosphate Potassium acid tartrate Potassium bicarbonate Potassium bicarbonate with sodium acid phosphate Retail Pharmacy-specialist and sodium bicarbonate effervescent tablets Potassium chlorate __ Except lozenges Potassium chlorate and phenol gargle BPC Potassium chloride __ Except soluble tablets of 500 mg Potassium chloride long acting tablets Potassium citrate Potassium citrate mixture BP Potassium citrate and belladonna mixture for infants BPC 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 para-aminobenzoate Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Potassium perchlorate Potassium pennanganate Potassium with chloride, effervescent tablets Prazosin hydrochloride tablets Prednisolone tablets Prednisolone tablets, enteric coated Retail Pharmacy-specialist Prednisolone and it salts and esters alone or in Retail Pharmacy-specialist combination with other phannac<,utical r<'quirements as proprietary eye preparations Prednisolone acetate with neomycin sulphate and Retail Pharmacy-sp<'cialist polymyxin B sulphate proprietary eye drops Prednisolone sodium phosphate for use as an enema Prednisolone sodium phosphate suppositories Prednisolone steaglate tablets __ Prednisone tablets __ Pregnancy tests as approved by the Director Only on a wholesal .. supply order General Prilocaine hydrochloride with or without adrenaline or felypressin Primaquine phosphate Primidone Probenecid Procainamide hydrochloride __ Procainamid<, hydrochloride long-acting tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist 966 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Procaine hydrochloride Procaine penicillin .. Procarbazine hydrochloride Retail Pharmacy-specialist Prochlorperazine, its salts and esters Procyclidine hydrochloride .. Proflavine hemisulphate Proflavine solution-tablets Progesterone . . . . Proguanil hydrochloride tablets Promethazine hydrochloride .. Except in any topical application Promethazine hydrochloride with pethidine hydrochloride injection Promethazine hydrochloride with pethidine hydrochloride and atropine sulphate injection Promethazine theoclate Promulsin Promulsin wax Propamidine isethionate ophthalmic solution Propanidid Only on a wholesale supply order I, 2·Propanediol diacetate with acetic acid and benzethonium chloride ear drops Propantheline bromide Propranolol hydrochloride injection, long· acting capsules and tablets Propyl hydroxybenzoate Propylene glycol Propylthiouracil Protamine sulphate injection Prothionamide Retail Pharmacy-specialist Protriptyline hydrochloride tablets . . . . Proxymetacaine hydrochloride eye drops .. Only on a practitioner's supply order Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride tablets and elixir Pumilio pine oil Pyrantel embonate Pyrazinamide Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pyridostigmine bromide Pyridoxine hydrochloride injection Not exceeding 50 mg per 2 rn1 each Pyridoxine hydrochloride Not exceeding a strength of 100 mg per dose Pyrimethamine Pyrimethamine with sulphadoxine tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Quillaia extract, liquid BP Quillaia tincture BP Q!.Iinalbarbitone sodium {al Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment inclusive of any repeats Q!.Unidine bisulphate long acting capsules and long· acting tablets Q!.Iinidine sulphate Quinine sulphate .. Ranitidine hydrochloride injection and tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Raspberry syrup BP . . . . In combination Reserpine Resorcinol 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 967
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Resorcinol ointment, compound BPC .. Resorcinol and sulphur paste BPC .. Rhubarb and soda ammoniated, mixture, BP Rhubarb mixture, compound BPC 1973 .. Rhubarb mixture, compound, for infants BPC 1973 Rhubarb powder, compound BP Rhubarb tincture, compound BP Riboflavine Not exceeding a strength of 10 mg per dose Rifampicin, for the treatment of tuberculosis Retail Pharmacy-specialist Rimiterol hydrobromide aerosol inhaler Rolitetracycline and its nitrate, with or without lignocaine hydrochloride, for injection Rose b~gal single dose eye drops .. Only on a practitioner's supply order Rose water In combination Rosemary oil In combination Saccharin and saccharin sodium In combination Salbutamol aerosol inhaler .. Salbutamol sulphate as capsules for oral inhalation Salbutamol sufphate oral liquid and tablets .. Salbutamol sufphate injection, respirator solution and long· acting tablets 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 as approved Retail Pharmacy-specialist by the Director·General Scarlet red Senega infusion Senega extract, liquid BP Senna extract, standardised .. Silver nitrate Silver nitrate, toughened BP .. Silver protein, mifd BPC 1968 Silver sulphadiazine with chlorhexidine digluconate Only on a practitioner's supply order cream Simple linctus BP .. Simple linctus for infants BP Simple eye ointment BP Simple ointment BP Simple syrup In combination Soap, soft In combination Soap, solution, ethereal Soap liniment BPC .. Soap solution, compound NZF 1953 Soap spirit, industrial In combination Soap spirit, potash, industrial In combination Soda lime .. .. Only on a wholesale supply order Sodium acid phosphate with sodium phosphate enema Sodium aurothiomalate 968 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Sodium benzoate .. Sodium bicarbonate Sodium bicarbonate ear drops BP Sodium bicarbonate mixture for infatns BPC 1973 Sodium bicarbonate tablets, compound BP Sodium calciumedetate Sodium carboxymethyceUulose In combination Sodium carboxymethyceUulose with pectin and gelatin paste and powder Sodium chloride sodium chloride injection (a) In quantities of 50 mI or less per unit only on a prescription, or a practitioner's supply order, or a bulk supply order (b) In quantities exceeding 50 mI per unit only on a wholesale supply order Sodium chloride single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Sodium chloride mixture, compound BPC Sodium chloride mouth wash, compound BP Sodium citrate Sodium citrate mixture BPC .. Sodium citrate with sodium !auryl sulphoacetate and sorbitol enema Sodium citro·tartrate effervescent granules Sodium cromoglycate capsules for oral and nasal inhalation Sodium cromoglycate aerosol inhaler for oral use Sodium cromoglycate capsules Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Sodium cromoglycate eye drops Hospital Pharmacy Sodium cromoglycate nebuliser solution, nasal spray and nasal drops Sodium cyclamate .. In combination Sodium fluoride .. Sodium hyaluronate eye solution Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Sodium hydroxide .. Sodium hypochlcrite solution as approved by the Director-Gt-neral when prescribed for a patient on a renal dialysis unit at his own home Sodium iodide Sodium lauryl sulphate Sodium metabisufphite Sodium nitroprusside, buffered, diagnostic strips as Not available on a l;mik supply order approved by the Director-General SodIUm nitroprusside with aminoacetic acid Not available on a bulk supply order diagnostic tablets as approved by the Director General Sodium nitroprusside infusion Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Sodium phosphate _ . Sodium polyhydroxyaluminium monocarbonate hexitol complex tablets Sodium polystyrene sulphonate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Sodium salicylate . _ .. sodium salicylate mixture BP Sodium salicylate mixture, strong BP .. Sodium sulphate ...... Sodium tetradecyl sulphate injection Sodium thiosulphate .. Sodium valproate ._ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Sorbide nitrate Sorbitan derivatives 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 969
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Sorbitol solution In combination Soyabean oil (a) On the prescription of a practitioner (b) Midwifery order (lOO m!) Spectinomycin hydrochloride Retail Pharmacy-specialist Spermaceti Spiramycin Spirit ear drops BNF 1971 Spirit methylated, denatured (S.V.M. coloured) Available on a bulk supply order for a licensed hospital Spirit. methylated, industrial (Methylated spirit (a) In combination with other w.P.) (M.S.W.P.) pharmaceutical rf'quirements when prescribed by a practitioner for an individual patient (b) In small quantities, up to 300 ml, when prescribed by a practitioner for an individual patient (c) Not available on a practitioner's supply order (d) Notavailable on a bulk sUFply order for a licensed hospita with the exception of an order representing an aggrf'gation of practitioner's prescriptions for individual patients Spirit methylated, industrial (acetone tree) BPC (a) In combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when prescribed by a practitioner for an individual patient (b) In small quantities, up to 300 ml, when prescribf'd by a practitioner for an individual patient (e) Not available on a practitioner'S supply order (d) Not available on a bulk sUFply order for a licensed hospita with the exception of an ordf'r representing an aggregation of practitioner's prescriptions for individual patients Spirit, surgical BPC (a) In small quantities, up to 300 ml, when prescribed by a practitioner for an individual patient (b) Not available on a bulk supply order for a licensed hospital (c) Not available on a practitioner's supply order (d) Not available in combination with other pharmaceutical requirements Spirit, bay, compound, industrial In combination Spironolactone Spironolactone tablets exceeding 25 mg strength Retail Pharmacy-specialist Squill oxymel BPC .. Squill syrup, BPC Squill tincture BP Squill vinegar BP Starch In combination Stearic acid Sterculia .. Stilboestrol 970 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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Stilboestrol diphosphate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Stilboestrol pessaries BPC Stramonium and potassium iodide mixture BNF 1971 Stramonium tincture BP Streptokinase and streptodornase Except oral tablets Streptomycin sulphate Except in any skin preparation Strychnine hydrochloride Sugar In combination Sulindac tablets Sulphacetamide sodium Sulphacetamide sodium eye ointment __ Not exceeding 10 percent strength Sulphacetamide sodium single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Sulphadiazine sodium only as an injection Sulphadimidine Antibiotic restriction Sulphadimidine mixture for infants BPC Antibiotic restriction Sulphafurazole and derivatives __ Antibiotic restriction Sulphaguanidine Antibiotic restriction Sulphamethizole Antibiotic restriction Sulphapyridine Antibiotic restriction SulphasaJazine suppositories and tablets Sulphinpyrazone _ _ __ Sulphur lotion, compound BPC Sulphur, precipitated __ Sulphur, sublimed __ Sulphur with phenol and titanium dioxide cream Sulphurated potash Sulthiame Sunscreen preparations, proprietary, as approved Retail Pharmacy-specialist by the Director-General Suppositories, extemporaneously prepared Limited to pharmaceutical requirements within this direction Suxamethonillffi bromide Suxamethoniurn chloride Suxethonium bromide Syringes, non-disposable as approved by the Diabetic supplies Director-General Syringes, plastic for insulin, with attached needle Diabetic syringes as approved by the Director-General Talc, purified __ Talc dusting powder BP Tamoxifen citrate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Tannic acid Tannic acid glycerin BPC I 973 Tar Tar, compound, bath oils as approved by the Only on the prescription of a medical Director-General practitioner Tartaric acid Tartrazine solution, compound, BPC Temazepam capsules (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescnptlon form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatlnent, inclusive of any repeats Terbutaline sulphate Terbutaline sulphate long-acting tablets Terbutaline sulphate aerosol inhaler __ Terpin hydrate 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 971
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Testosterone cypionate only as an injection Testosterone enanthate injection Testosterone enanthate ointment Retail Pharmacy-specialist Testosterone. mixed esters. for injection Testosterone propionate injection Testosterone propionate ointment Retail Pharmacy-specialist Testosterone undecanoate capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialiS! Tetrabenazine Tetrabromophenol blue diagnostic sticks as approved by the Director-General T etracosactrin Hospital Pharmacy Tetracosactrin. long acting __ Hospital Pharmacy Tetracycline suppositories. extemporaneously prepared Tetracycline hydrochloride capsules 250 mg and Antibiotic restriction capsules 500 mg Tetracycline hydrochloride eye ointment Tetracycline hydrochloride tablets 250 mg and Antibiotic restriction tablets 500 mg Tetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared Tetracycline hydrochloride. phosphate buffered. Antibiotic restriction capsules 250 mg Theobroma oil Theophylline Theophylline long-acting capsules (as approved by the Director-General) and long-acting tablets Thiamine hydrochloride Not exceeding a strength of 50 mg per dose Thiethylperazine maleate Thioguanine tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Thiomersal Thiopentone sodium enema _ . Only on a wholesale supply order Thiopentone sodium injection. with or without Only on a wholesale supply order water for injection Thiopropazate hydrochloride tablets __ Thioridazine hydrochloride __ Thioridazine hydrochloride long acting tablets Thiotepa __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Thiothixene tablets 2 mg and 10 mg _ . Thiothixene oral solution Retail Pharmacy-specialist Thiothixene hydrochloride injection Thymol Thymol glycerin. compound BP Thyroxine sodium __ Tiemonium iodide injection and tablets Timolol maleate eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Timolol maleate injection and tablets __ Tinidazole tablets Tioconazole skin cream. vaginal ointment and vaginal tablets Titanium dioxide _. Titanium dioxide paste BP Tobramycin eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Tobramycin sulphate injection Hospital Pharmacy T ocainide hydrochloride injection and tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Tolazamide tablets _ . Tolazoline hydrochloride Tolbutamide 972 Drug Tariff 1984 19841180
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Tolnaftate cream, powder and solution Tolu linctus for infants, compound RP Tolu solution BP Tolu syrup BP Tragacanth . . . . In combination Tragacanth, powder, compound BP In combination -Tragacanth mucilage BPC 1973 In combination Tranylcypromine sulphate .. Tretinoin .. Except impregnated swabs Triacetyloleandomycin (a) Except in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Triamcinolone tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Triamcinolone acetonide injection Triamcinolone acetonide with or without neomycin sulphate or halquinol as proprietary skin preparations 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 Triamterene Triamterene with hrdrochlorothiazide Tria7.0lam tablets 0 0.125 mg and 0.25 mg (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) On anyone prescription form payment will be made for no more than a quantity sufficient for 30 days treatment, inclusive of any repeats Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroethylene .. (a) Not exceeding 25 ml (b) Not available on a practitioner's supply order (c) Not available on a bulk supply order Trichloroethylene for anaesthetic purposes Only on a wholesale supply order Triethanolamine Trifluoperazine hydrochloride injection, tablets, long acting capsules and syrup Trimeprazine tartrate Trimetaphan camsylate Only on a practitioner's supply order Trimethoprim tablets Antibiotic restriction Trimipramine maleate Trioxsalen tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Triple syrup BPC 1949 Tripotassium dicitratobismuthate solution and tablets Triprolidine hydrochloride Except in any topical application Triprolidine hydrochloride long acting tablets Tropicamide eye drops . . . . Tropicamide single dose eye drops Only on a practitioner's supply order Troxidone capsules . Trypan blue Trypsin .. Except oral tablets Tuaminoheptane sulphate Tubocurarine chloride Only on a'wholesale supply order Turpentine liniment BP Turpentine oil Tyloxapol eye drops 1984/180 Drug Tariff 1984 973
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Undecenoic acid Urea Except in any proprietary preparation unless such a preparation is elsewhere listed in this direction Urea 10 percent proprietary cream Vancomycin hydrochloride .. Hospital Pharmacy Vanillin .. In combination Vasopressin and its salts and esters as an injection Verapamil injection Hospital Phannacy-specialist Verapamil tablets .. Vidarabine eye ointment Retail Phannacy-spedalist Vinblastine sulphate Retail Phannacy-spedalist Vincristine sulphate . . . . Retail Phannacy-spedalist Viprynium embonate suspensiOl' and tablets Vitamin A capsules of 50,000 i.u. stren~th Vitamin A tablets of 50,000 i.u. strength Vitamin A solution, concentrated BPC Vitamin A acetate tablets Vitamin A and D capsules BPC Vitamin A and D with ascorbic acid powder Vitamins A, D, and C solution Vitamin B complex injection as approved by the Only on the bulk supply order of a Director·General licensed hospital Vitamin B tablets, compound BPC Vitamin B tablets, compound, strong BPC Vitamins tablets (BPC capsule strength) Warfarin sodium ...... Water for injections (al In quantities of 50 mI or less per unit when prescribed on the same prescription fonn or practitioner's supply order as injections mentioned in this direction and requiring a solvent or diluent, or on a bufk supply order (b) In quantities exceeding 50 mI per unit only on a wholesale supply order (cl When used in the extemporaneous compounding of eye drops White liniment BP .. Wild cherry syrup BP Wool alcohols BP .. Wool alcohols ointment BP Wool fat BP Wool fat, hydrous BP Wool fat, hydrous, with mineral oil bath oil and Only on the prescription of a medical lotion practitioner Wool fat ointment, hydrous BPC Xylometazoline hydrochloride nasal preparations Xylometazoline hydrochloride with antazoline sulphate sterile eye drops and nasal preparations line cbloride line oxide line oxide, colloidal line and castor oil ointment BP linc and coal tar paste BP .. linc and ichthammol cream BP linc and salicyclic acid paste BP line cream BP line gelatin BPC 1968 line ointment BP .. 974 Drug Tariff 1984 1984/180
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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 sulphate lotion BP Zinc sulphide lotion BPC 1973 Zinc undecenoate Zinc undecenoate dusting powder BPC Zinc undecenoate ointment BPC
Dated at Wellington this 25th day of June 1984.
A. G. MALCOLM, Minister of Health.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This note is not part of the direction, /Jut is intended to indicate it, general effect. This direction sets out the drugs, medicines, and materials that may be supplied at the cost of the Department of Health by phannacists 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 of 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. Some trade names of the drugs that were not included in any previous Drug Tariff are-
Trade Name OffiCial Name
Femulen (Approved condition) .. Ethynodiol diacetate tablets Healon Eye (Hospital Pharmacy-specialist) Sodium hyaluronate Madopar tablets Benserazide hydrochloride with levodopa tablets Roaccutane (Hospital Pharmacy- Isotretinoin dermatologist) Rocephin (Hospital Pharmacy-specialist) Ceftriaxone sodium Voltaren S.R. Diclofenac sodium long· acting tablets
Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936. Date of notification in Gazette: 28 June 1984. This notice is administered in the Department of Health.