The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006 No. 552

SCHEDULE 1 Modification and amendment of the National Health Service Act 1977 and modification of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993

Persons performing primary medical and dental services

4.  Section 28X of the Act(1) (persons performing primary medical and dental services) shall apply as if—

(a) after subsection (1) there were inserted the following subsection—

“(1A) Regulations may provide that a health care professional of a prescribed description may not perform any local pharmaceutical services for which a Primary Care Trust is responsible unless he is included in a list maintained by the Primary Care Trust.”; and

(b) in subsection (3), after paragraph (b) there were inserted the following paragraph—

“(c) a Primary Care Trust is responsible for a local pharmaceutical service if it secures its provision, by or under any enactment.”.

(1)

Section 28X was inserted by the 2003 Act, section 179.