The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013

[F1Accessing summary care recordsU.K.

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29A.[F2(1) An NHS pharmacist (P) must have access to summary care records at P’s pharmacy premises, and must ensure that the access that P has to summary care records at those premises is constant and reliable during core and supplementary opening hours, in so far as that is within the control of P.

(2) P must access the summary information in a patient’s summary care record whenever P is providing pharmaceutical services to the patient, to the extent that P, in the exercise of P’s clinical judgement, considers it appropriate to do so.]

(3) In this paragraph, a “summary care record” and “summary information” mean a summary care record and summary information within the meanings given in—

(a)regulation 68 of the GMS Regulations (summary care records); and

(b)regulation 61 of the PMS Regulations (summary care records).]