Insertion of regulation 18A (Health Board support for contractors)
5. After regulation 18 (essential services) insert—
“Health Board support for contractors
18A.—(1) A contract must include terms which require the Health Board to provide the contractor with support by providing community treatment and care services and pharmacotherapy services.
(2) A contract must include terms to the effect that the extent and manner of the community treatment and care services and the pharmacotherapy services which the Health Board must provide in terms of paragraph (1) are to be determined in accordance with such directions as the Scottish Ministers may give.
(3) Any support which the contractor receives from a pharmacist independent prescriber supplied by the Health Board in connection with dispensing services which the contractor provides (under paragraph 44 of schedule 6) is not to be treated as support for the provision of pharmacotherapy services.”.