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12.—(1) An accountable officer, who is an accountable officer nominated or appointed by a Primary Care Trust or a Health Board, may request a periodic declaration and a self-assessment from a general medical practitioner on (in England) its medical performers list or (in Scotland) its primary medical services performers list, which must state—
(a)whether the practitioner uses controlled drugs at any of the premises from which he provides primary medical services as part of the health service; and
(b)how the practitioner manages and uses controlled drugs at those premises.
(2) The Healthcare Commission may request an appropriate periodic declaration and an appropriate self-assessment from an NHS trust, an NHS foundation trust or a person registered with them that provides health care.
(3) The Commission for Social Care Inspection may request an appropriate periodic declaration and an appropriate self-assessment from an English care home.
(4) The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain may request an appropriate periodic declaration and an appropriate self-assessment from a registered pharmacy.
(5) In this regulation, “general medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner whose name is included in the register maintained by the General Medical Council under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003(1) (the General Practitioner Register).
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