82APharmaceutical needs assessments

1

A Local Health Board must prepare and publish an assessment of needs for pharmaceutical services in its area.

2

A Local Health Board must—

a

keep the assessment most recently published by it under subsection (1) under review, and

b

revise it as appropriate.

3

Regulations must—

a

specify a date by which a Local Health Board is to prepare and publish its first assessment under subsection (1);

b

make provision about circumstances in which a Local Health Board is to review and if appropriate revise its assessment (and may make such provision by reference to, among other things, a period within which or following which a Local Health Board is to review and if appropriate revise its assessment);

c

make provision about the way in which an assessment is to be published.

4

The regulations may make other provision about the preparation, publication, review and revision of an assessment under subsection (1), including (among other things) about—

a

the information to be contained in an assessment (which may include, among other things, information relating to persons with whom a Local Health Board has entered into a general medical services contract);

b

the extent to which an assessment is to take account of likely future needs and of other matters;

c

consultation to be carried out in connection with an assessment;

d

procedural requirements.

6A

A statutory instrument containing the first regulations under section 82A (pharmaceutical needs assessments) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales.