The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012

Other continuing matters: dispensing doctors

13.—(1) A dispensing list of a Primary Care Trust that is the current list immediately before the appointed day is also the current list at the start of the appointed day, unless—

(a) the Primary Care Trust is required or entitled to give effect to a decision reached before the appointed day to change, remove or include an entry in the list from the start of the appointed day, in which case the current list at the start of the appointed day is the list as modified to give effect to that decision; or

(b) immediately before the appointed day the Primary Care Trust had a dispensing contractor list, in which case its dispensing doctor list at the start of the appointed day is the list as modified to give effect to paragraph (a) and regulation 10.

(2) As regards the resolution of any matter arising under the 2005 Regulations and relating to—

(a) compliance with the terms of service of a dispensing doctor before the appointed day (whether compliance by the dispensing doctor or a Primary Care Trust); or

(b) an ongoing matter that arose before the appointed day and relates to changing or removing any entry in a dispensing doctor list by virtue of a provision of the 2005 Regulations (other than pursuant to an application under Part 5 of those Regulations for outline consent or premises approval, as regulation 4 applies in those cases),

that matter is to be resolved in accordance with the relevant provisions of the 2005 Regulations, and where applicable the SCAT Regulations and the relevant directions under section 87 of the 2006 Act (GMS contracts: payments).