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PART 5Applications by doctors for inclusion in or amendment to dispensing doctor lists

Discontinuation of arrangements for the provision of pharmaceutical services by doctors

23.—(1) A Local Health Board must give reasonable notice in writing to a doctor that he or she must discontinue the provision of pharmaceutical services to a patient under an arrangement pursuant to regulation 20 where the patient no longer falls within regulation 20(1)(a), (b) or (c).

(2) A notice given under paragraph (1)—

(a)is subject to any postponement or termination of arrangements for the provision of pharmaceutical services to that person by that doctor made under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2, paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 or regulation 11(6); and

(b)must not be given—

(i)pending any appeal against a decision of the Local Health Board to postpone the making of or the termination of the arrangement.; or

(ii)where paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 applies.