The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002

Amendment of Schedule 2

14.  In Part II of Schedule 2 (terms of service for chemists), in paragraph 4—

(a) after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) In this paragraph, where a Primary Care Trust must satisfy itself as to whether the needs of persons in the neighbourhood for pharmaceutical services are being met, a Primary Care Trust shall treat any local pharmaceutical services being provided in that neighbourhood at the days and times in question as if they were pharmaceutical services being so provided.”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (13), after head (b) insert—

“(c) at times when the premises are not open, a notice, where practicable legible from outside the premises, specifying the addresses of LPS chemists in the neighbourhood, the type of local pharmaceutical services which those LPS chemists provide, and the times at which their premises are open.”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (14)—

(i) after “included in the pharmaceutical list” insert “or LPS chemists”,

(ii) after “they are required” insert “(or, in the case of LPS chemists, have undertaken)”, and

(iii) at the end insert “or local pharmaceutical services, and, in the case of LPS chemists, of the type of local pharmaceutical services which they provide.”; and

(d) in sub-paragraph (15)—

(i) after “one or more chemists” insert “or LPS chemists”,

(ii) after “pharmaceutical services” insert “or local pharmaceutical services”, and

(iii) at the end insert “; but a chemist may make an arrangement with an LPS chemist under this sub-paragraph only where that LPS chemist provides local pharmaceutical services which are of a similar description and extent as the pharmaceutical services which he would ordinarily provide.”.