Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Amendment of regulation 12 of the principal Regulations

9.  After regulation 12 of the principal Regulations insert the following regulations—

“Doctors who previously performed personal medical services

12A.— (1) This regulation applies to a doctor—

(a) whose name is included in the medical list;

(b) who immediately before the inclusion of his name in that list satisfied the requirements of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of regulation 12(1A);

(c) who, when his name was included in the medical list as mentioned in regulation 12(1A)(b), was required under regulation 12 to provide pharmaceutical services to any patient; and

(d) who then provided dispensing services under a pilot scheme to any person who received personal medical services under that pilot scheme.

(2) A doctor to whom this regulation applies shall be treated as being required under regulation 12 to provide pharmaceutical services to any patient to whom immediately before his rejoining the medical list he provided dispensing services under the pilot scheme and who wishes him to continue to provide such services.

Dispensing doctor lists

12B.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a Board shall prepare and publish a list, to be called the dispensing doctor list, of the names of those doctors required by the Board under regulation 12 to provide pharmaceutical services to their patients and who are actually doing so (below referred to as “dispensing doctors”).

(2) The dispensing doctor list shall be divided into two parts as follows—

(a) Part 1 shall contain the names of those dispensing doctors whose names are included in the Board’s medical list; and

(b) Part 2 shall contain the names of those dispensing doctors whose names are not included in the Board’s medical list but who perform personal medical services in the Board’s area.

(3) The dispensing doctor list shall indicate—

(a) in respect of any doctor whose name is included in Part 1, the address of his practice premises; and

(b) in respect of any doctor whose name is included in Part 2, the address of the place specified in the pilot scheme as the place at which the doctor will normally be available during normal hours to perform personal medical services.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)—

(a) “practice premises” has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Medical Regulations; and

(b) “normal hours” means those days and times specified in a pilot scheme as the days on which and times at which a doctor will normally be available to perform personal medical services.

12C.   A Board shall remove the name of a doctor from its dispensing doctor list when—

(a) the doctor has died; or

(b) the doctor is no longer providing general medical services or (as the case may be) performing personal medical services; or

(c) more than 12 months have elapsed since the doctor last provided pharmaceutical services pursuant to the requirement to provide such services made by the Board under regulation 12.”.