The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Independent prescribers and supplementary prescribers

29.—(1) Where—

(a) a provider employs or engages a person who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whose functions will include prescribing;

(b) a party to the agreement is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whose functions will include prescribing;

(c) a partner or member as the case may be of a partnership or limited liability partnership that is a party to the agreement, is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whose functions will include prescribing;

(d) the member of a company that is a party to the agreement is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whose functions will include prescribing; or

(e) the functions of a person who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whom it already employs or has already engaged are extended to include prescribing,

it must notify the Health Board in writing within the period of seven days beginning with the date on which the provider employed or engaged the person, the person became a party to the agreement, the person became a partner or member as the case may be of the partnership, limited liability partnership or company that is a party to the agreement (unless, immediately before becoming such a party, or partner or member of that partnership, limited liability partnership or company that is such a party, the person fell under sub-paragraph (1)(a)) or the person’s functions were extended as the case may be.

(2) Where—

(a) the provider ceases to employ or engage a person who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber, whose functions included prescribing in the provider’s practice;

(b) the party to the agreement, who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber, whose functions include prescribing, ceases to be a party to the agreement;

(c) the partner or member, as the case may be in a partnership or limited liability partnership who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber, whose functions include prescribing, ceases to be a partner or member of the partnership or limited liability partnership;

(d) the member of a company that is a party to the agreement, who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whose functions include prescribing, ceases to be a member of the company;

(e) the functions of a person who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whom the provider employs or engages in its practice are changed so that they no longer include prescribing in its practice; or

(f) the provider becomes aware that a person who is an independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber whom the provider employs or engages has been removed or suspended from the relevant register,

it must notify the Health Board in writing by the end of the second day after the day when the event occurred.

(3) The provider must provide the following information when it notifies the Health Board in accordance with sub-paragraph (1).

(a) the person’s full name;

(b) the person’s professional qualifications;

(c) the person’s identifying number which appears in the relevant register;

(d) the date on which the person’s entry in the relevant register was annotated to the effect that the person was qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances for patients;

(e) the date on which—

(i) the person was employed or engaged, if applicable;

(ii) the person became a party to the agreement, if applicable;

(iii) the person became a partner or member, as the case may be in the partnership or limited liability partnership that is a party to the agreement, if applicable;

(iv) the person became a member of a company that is a party to the agreement, if applicable; or

(v) one of the person’s functions became to prescribe in its practice.

(4) The provider must provide the following information when it notifies the Health Board in accordance with sub-paragraph (2):—

(a) the person’s full name;

(b) the person’s professional qualifications;

(c) the person’s identifying number which appears in the relevant register;

(d) the date on which—

(i) the person ceased to be employed or engaged in its practice;

(ii) the person ceased to be a party to the agreement;

(iii) the person ceased to be a partner or member, as the case may be, in a partnership or limited liability partnership that is a party to the agreement;

(iv) the person ceased to be a member of a company that is a party to the agreement,

(v) the person’s functions changed so as no longer to include prescribing; or

(vi) on which the person was removed or suspended from the relevant register.