Part 1: Controlling cost of health service medicines Section 2: Special medicinal products – NHS (Wales) Act 2006
Section 2 of the Act relates to the remuneration for persons providing pharmaceutical services in respect of special medicinal products.
	Special medicinal products are medicines made to order for individual patients.
	Section 2 adds new subsections to section 88 of the NHS (Wales) Act, which relates to the remuneration for persons providing pharmaceutical services in Wales.
	New subsection (8A) clarifies that regulations can be made regarding remuneration for pharmaceutical services specifically with respect to special medicinal products.
	New subsection (8B) explains that regulations can relate to how the remuneration should be calculated and also that remuneration does not have to be provided in specified circumstances.
	New subsection (8C) provides example of how remuneration could be calculated. This may include requiring a dispenser, health service body (as listed in section 7(4) of the NHS (Wales) Act) or a determining authority (which includes the Welsh Ministers or where authorised by the Welsh Minister, any local health board or other person appointed by the Welsh Ministers in an instrument) to make inquiries to ensure that remuneration is reasonable or estimating an amount of remuneration that is reasonable. Subsection (8C) therefore allows for different payment arrangements to be established for special medicinal products compared to other products supplied through pharmaceutical services.
	New subsection (8D) provides examples of the circumstances in which remuneration would not have to be provided. This may include circumstances where special medicinal products are provided to persons providing pharmaceutical services by a health service body or under an arrangement between a health service body and other person. This might for example, inform some form of central procurement for provision of special medicinal products, rather than the pharmaceutical provider purchasing the products.
	Subsection (8E) defines "health service body" and "special medicinal product".