The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013

Dispensing doctor remuneration

92.—(1) As regards the pharmaceutical services provided by dispensing doctors—

(a) if a drug, appliance or related additional service is provided by a dispensing doctor in circumstances where the dispensing doctor could provide it under pharmaceutical services or related arrangements for the provision of primary medical services, the remuneration in respect of providing that drug, appliance or service is to be the remuneration payable in respect of that drug, appliance or service under the related arrangements; and

(b) in all other cases, the remuneration payable to a dispensing doctor in respect of those pharmaceutical services is to be the remuneration payable under a GMS contract to a GMS practice in respect of those services by virtue of directions under section 87 of the 2006 Act(1) (GMS contracts: payments), whether or not the dispensing doctor is a GMS practice.

(2) Claims for remuneration in respect of pharmaceutical services by or on behalf of a dispensing doctor are to be made to the NHS BSA (which calculates the amount of the payment on behalf of the NHSCB) in such manner as the NHS BSA determines.

(3) The making of payments by the NHSCB pursuant to a claim made in accordance with paragraph (2) is to be in accordance with the arrangements—

(a) that the dispensing doctor has with the NHSCB for the provision of primary medical services to the patients to whom the dispensing doctor provides pharmaceutical services; or

(b) if the dispensing doctor has no such arrangements, that the NHSCB has with a provider of primary medical services for the provision of primary medical services to the patients to whom the dispensing doctor provides pharmaceutical services,

subject as appropriate to any deduction that may or must be made in accordance either with those arrangements or with any provision of, or made under, the 2006 Act (including the determinations mentioned in paragraph (1)).

(1)

Section 87 has been amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), Schedule 4, paragraph 33.