Part 7Pharmaceutical services and local pharmaceutical services
Chapter 1Pharmaceutical services
Provision of pharmaceutical services
82AF1Pharmaceutical needs assessments
1
A Local Health Board must prepare and publish an assessment of needs for pharmaceutical services in its area.
2
A Local Health Board must—
a
keep the assessment most recently published by it under subsection (1) under review, and
b
revise it as appropriate.
3
Regulations must—
a
specify a date by which a Local Health Board is to prepare and publish its first assessment under subsection (1);
b
make provision about circumstances in which a Local Health Board is to review and if appropriate revise its assessment (and may make such provision by reference to, among other things, a period within which or following which a Local Health Board is to review and if appropriate revise its assessment);
c
make provision about the way in which an assessment is to be published.
4
The regulations may make other provision about the preparation, publication, review and revision of an assessment under subsection (1), including (among other things) about—
a
the information to be contained in an assessment (which may include, among other things, information relating to persons with whom a Local Health Board has entered into a general medical services contract);
b
the extent to which an assessment is to take account of likely future needs and of other matters;
c
consultation to be carried out in connection with an assessment;
d
procedural requirements.