The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009

This section has no associated Executive Note

2.  After paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 (provision of pharmaceutical services) to the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009(1), insert—

“(1A) In furtherance of the obligations in sub-paragraphs (1) and (3), a pharmacist, when providing drugs or appliances ordered in accordance with those sub-paragraphs must—

(a)use all reasonable endeavours to provide those drugs or appliances with reasonable promptness;

(b)refrain from taking any action which may delay or prevent the dispensing of those drugs or appliances; and

(c)contact the prescriber or dentist to discuss alternative arrangements where there is likely to be, in that pharmacist’s opinion, a clinically significant delay in the dispensing of those drugs or appliances.”.