Part I Organisation
F1Persons performing pharmaceutical care services
17XPersons performing pharmaceutical care services
1
Regulations may provide that a registered pharmacist may not perform any pharmaceutical care service which a Health Board is, under section 2CA(1), under a duty to provide or secure the provision of unless that pharmacist is included in a list maintained under the regulations by the Health Board.
2
Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision in relation to such lists and in particular as to—
a
the preparation, maintenance and publication of a list;
b
eligibility for inclusion in a list;
c
applications for inclusion (including provision for the procedure for applications to be made and dealt with and documents to be supplied on application);
d
the grounds on which an application for inclusion must be granted or refused;
e
requirements with which a person included in a list must comply (including requirements as to standards of performance and patient care and as to declarations, consents or undertakings);
f
suspension or removal from a list (including the grounds for and consequences of suspension or removal);
g
circumstances in which a person included in a list may not withdraw from it;
h
payments to be made by a Health Board in respect of a person suspended from the list (including provision for the amount of, or the method of calculating, the payment to be determined by the Scottish Ministers);
i
criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations;
j
disclosure of information about applicants for inclusion, refusals of applications, or suspensions, removals or references to the Tribunal.
3
Regulations making provision as to the matters referred to in subsection (2)(j) may in particular authorise the disclosure of information—
a
by a Health Board to the Scottish Ministers; and
b
by the Scottish Ministers to a Health Board.
S. 17X and preceding cross-heading inserted (prosp.) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 23, 43(3)