The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

Amendment of regulation 27 of the principal Regulations

5.  After regulation 27 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following new regulation:—

“Additional professional services

27A.— (1) A chemist may undertake to provide additional professional services.

(2) In these Regulations “additional professional services” means—

(a) the setting aside in a pharmacy of an area for the display of health education material;

(b) the provision to the public of advice and counselling on medicines and

(c) the undertaking of clinical audits; and

(d) the publication by a pharmacist of a practice leaflet which shall—

(i) include the name, address and telephone number of the pharmacy and the hours in each day of the week during which that pharmacist provides pharmaceutical services from those premises;

(ii) detail the arrangements for dealing with after-hours and other urgent requirements from or in relation to that pharmacy;

(iii) state that National Health Service prescriptions are dispensed and which other National Health Service pharmaceutical services are provided; and

(iv) state that a pharmacist is available to advise and answer questions about medicines and the treatment of common ailments.

(3) In paragraph (2)(c) “clinical audit” means the systematic and critical analysis of the quality of clinical care.”.