The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 No. 349

SCHEDULE 4 U.K. [F1 NHS England’s]Terms of service of NHS pharmacists

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1

PART 2 U.K. Essential services

[F2 Discharge medicines service U.K.

22B.   An NHS pharmacist (P) must, to the extent that paragraph 22C requires and in the manner set out in that paragraph, provide advice, assistance and support to and in respect of a health service patient—

(a) recently discharged from hospital who is referred to P for advice, assistance and support in respect of the patient’s medication regimen by the staff of the hospital in which the patient stayed; or

(b) who is otherwise referred to P for advice, assistance and support in respect of the patient’s medication regimen by the staff of an NHS trust or NHS foundation trust as part of arrangements linked to the transfer of care between different providers of NHS services.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 4 paras. 22B, 22C inserted (1.1.2021) by The National Health Service (Charges and Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1126), regs. 1(3), 12