The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2015

Amendment of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations

8.—(1) Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations(1) (terms of service of NHS pharmacists) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 10 (further activities to be carried on in connection with the provision of dispensing services), in sub-paragraph (1), after paragraph (d) insert the following paragraph—

“(da) ensure that appropriate advice about the benefits of repeat dispensing is given to any patient who—

(i) has a long term, stable medical condition (that is, a medical condition that is unlikely to change in the short to medium term), and

(ii) requires regular medicine in respect of that medical condition,

including, where appropriate, advice that encourages the patient to discuss repeat dispensing of that medicine with a prescriber at the provider of primary medical services whose patient list the patient is on;”.

(3) In paragraph 28 (clinical governance), in sub-paragraph (2), for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) an audit programme, which in each financial year includes at least one clinical audit specified by P, and whichever of the following that the NHSCB specifies—

(i) a clinical audit carried out in a manner which is compatible with the NHSCB’s arrangements for the receiving and processing of data from the audit, or

(ii) a policy based audit (to support the development of the commissioning policies of the NHSCB) carried out in a manner which is compatible with the NHSCB’s arrangements for the receiving and processing of data from the audit;”.

(1)

To which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations.