The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Reward scheme

58.—(1) An NHS pharmacist who is presented with an order under paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 or an NHS appliance contractor who is presented with an order under paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 will be eligible to claim a payment from the Local Health Board, in accordance with the Drug Tariff, if—

(a) in accordance with paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 or paragraph 9 of Schedule 6 the NHS pharmacist or the NHS appliance contractor refused to provide the drugs or medicines or listed appliances ordered and informed the Local Health Board of this action as soon as practicable, or

(b) the NHS pharmacist or the NHS appliance contractor provided the drugs or listed appliances but had reason to believe at that time or subsequently came to have reason to believe that the order was not a genuine order for the person named on the prescription form or repeatable prescription form and informed the Local Health Board of this belief as soon as practicable and in either case the NHS pharmacist or the NHS appliance contractor has sent the order referred to in this paragraph to the Local Health Board and the Local Health Board has established that the order referred to in this paragraph was not a genuine order for the person named on the prescription form or repeatable prescription form.

(2) The Local Health Board must in respect of any claim under paragraph (1) make such payment as is due to the NHS pharmacist or the NHS appliance contractor calculated in the manner specified in the Drug Tariff.

(3) In this regulation, “order” includes a purported order.