PART II MODIFICATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT 1977 AND OTHER ENACTMENTS

Duty of Primary Care Trust in relation to local pharmaceutical services
16. In section 15 of the Act (duty of Primary Care Trust and Health Authority in relation to family health services), after subsection (1ZB) insert—

“(1ZC) It is the duty of each Primary Care Trust—
(a) in making LPS arrangements to establish and operate, in accordance with directions given by the Secretary of State under section 17 by virtue of section 36(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2001, procedures for dealing with complaints about the provision of local pharmaceutical services in accordance with those arrangements, and
Section 17 was substituted by the 1999 Act, section 12(1), and amended by the 2002 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 7.
(b) in accordance with regulations, to perform such other functions in relation to those arrangements as may be prescribed.
(1ZD) Regulations under subsection (1ZC)(b) may, in particular, prescribe functions in relation to training.”.

Section 15 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), sections 5(2) and 24; the 1990 Act, section 12(1)(b); the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 6; the 1997 Act, section 41(10) and Schedule 2, paragraphs 3 and 4; the 1999 Act, section 65 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 4 and 8; and the 2002 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 2 and Schedule 3, paragraph 11.