The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2005

Amendment of Schedule 3

23.  For paragraph 18 (home Primary Care Trust of bodies corporate) substitute—

“Home Primary Care Trusts of bodies corporate

18.— (1) Where a supplier of appliances is a body corporate with a registered office in England, the information to be provided under paragraphs 16 and 17 may be provided instead to the home Primary Care Trust, if the supplier of appliances also provides the home Primary Care Trust with details of all the other Primary Care Trusts in whose pharmaceutical lists it is included.

(2) The home Primary Care Trust shall consider such information and make a decision about the fitness to practise of the supplier of appliances.

(3) If the home Primary Care Trust is of the opinion that the information does raise any questions about the fitness to practise of the supplier of appliances, it shall make a recommendation about the appropriate action to be taken (if any) in relation to the supplier of appliances.

(4) A recommendation shall set out all the relevant facts and shall be fully reasoned.

(5) The home Primary Care Trust shall pass any of the information provided by the supplier of appliances and any recommendation it has made under paragraph (3) to any other Primary Care Trust—

(a) in whose pharmaceutical list the supplier of appliances is included; or

(b) to whom the supplier of appliances has made or makes an application to be included in its pharmaceutical list,

that requests it, within 28 days of receiving such a request.”.