The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Information to be supplied

23.—(1) An NHS appliance contractor must give written notice to the Local Health Board on whose pharmaceutical list he or she is included within 28 days (or if this is impracticable, as soon as practicable thereafter) of—

(a) any occurrence requiring a change in the information recorded about the NHS appliance contractor in the pharmaceutical list which the NHS appliance contractor has not otherwise notified to the Local Health Board in accordance with these Regulations;

(b) in the case of an NHS appliance contractor who is an individual, any change of his or her private address; and

(c) in the case of an NHS appliance contractor that is a body corporate, any change to the address of its registered office.

(2) An NHS appliance contractor must give the Local Health Board, if it so requests, the name of any registered pharmacist employed by the NHS appliance contractor who is responsible for dispensing a particular prescription.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), an NHS appliance contractor that is a body corporate must give notice in writing to the Local Health Board within 28 days (or if this is impractical, as soon as practicable thereafter) of any changes to the names and addresses of its directors.

(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), if an NHS appliance contractor that is a body corporate appoints a director or superintendent that was not listed on the NHS appliance contractor’s application for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list, the NHS appliance contractor must give notice in writing to the Local Health Board within 28 days (or if this is impracticable, as soon as practicable thereafter) of the fitness to practice information about that person.

(5) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), an NHS appliance contractor or the director or superintendent of an NHS appliance contractor that is a body corporate must inform the Local Health Board—

(a) if he or she, or a body corporate of which he or she is a director or superintendent, applies to be included in any of another Local Health Board’s NHS performers or providers lists, and of the outcome of any such application; and

(b) if he or she becomes a director or superintendent of a body corporate which is on any of another Local Health Board’s NHS performers or providers list, or which applies to be included in such a list, and the outcome of any such application.

(6) Where an NHS appliance contractor is a body corporate with a registered office in Wales, the information to be provided under sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) may be provided only to the Local Health Board in whose area that registered office is located, if the NHS appliance contractor also provides that Local Health Board with details of all the other Local Health Boards in whose pharmaceutical lists it is included, and in these circumstances that Local Health Board must pass the information on to any other Local Health Board—

(a) in whose pharmaceutical list the NHS appliance contractor is included; or

(b) to whom the NHS appliance contractor makes an application to be included in its pharmaceutical list, that requests it.

(7) In this paragraph, “NHS performers or providers list” (“rhestr cyflawnwyr neu ddarparwyr GIG”) means—

(a) a pharmaceutical list; or

(b) a list maintained of approved performers or providers of primary medical, dental or ophthalmic services.