Part 3

Miscellaneous

Pharmaceutical services in Wales

Breach of terms of arrangements: notices and penalties
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1
In Part 8 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, before Chapter 2 (disqualification) insert—
Chapter 1A

Notices and penalties

Notices and penalties
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1
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations provide that where a practitioner who provides pharmaceutical services or general ophthalmic services under arrangements with a Local Health Board breaches a term of those arrangements, the Local Health Board may—
a
by a notice require the practitioner to do, or not do, specified things or things of a specified description within a specified period, or
b
in prescribed circumstances or for a prescribed period, withhold all or part of a payment due to the practitioner under the arrangements.
2
Regulations under this section must include provision conferring on such persons as may be prescribed rights of appeal from decisions of Local Health Boards made by virtue of this section.
3
In this section—
- “practitioner” means a person included in an ophthalmic list or a pharmaceutical list, and
- “specified” means specified in a notice under paragraph (a) of subsection (1).
2
In section 107(9) of that Act, after “included in” insert “an ophthalmic list or”.