Part 7Pharmaceutical services and local pharmaceutical services

Chapter 6Disqualification

162Regulations about decisions under this Chapter

(1)

Any decision by a Primary Care Trust referred to in this Chapter must be reached in accordance with regulations about such decisions.

(2)

The regulations must include provision—

(a)

requiring the practitioner to be given notice of any allegation against him,

(b)

giving him the opportunity of putting his case at a hearing before a Primary Care Trust makes any decision affecting him under this Chapter,

(c)

requiring him to be given notice of the decision of the Primary Care Trust and the reasons for it and of any right of appeal which he may have.

(3)

The regulations may, in particular, make provision as to criteria which the Primary Care Trust must apply when making decisions in unsuitability cases.