Amendment of Part III (terms of service for doctors who provide pharmaceutical services) of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations
17. For paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 substitute—
“(1) A doctor who is authorised or required by a Local Health Board under regulation 20 to provide drugs or appliances to a patient, or who otherwise provides pharmaceutical services, shall secure that the complaints procedure established in accordance with the terms of a GMS contract which gives effect to paragraph 92 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 regulations, by the doctor if he is a party to that GMS contract or by the contractor by whom he is employed or engaged if he is not a party to that GMS contract, applies in relation to any matter reasonably connected with his provision of pharmaceutical services as tit applies as respects to services provided under that GMS contract.
(2) Accordingly, the term of the GMS contract which gives effect to paragraph 95 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations also applies in relation to complaints about such matters.”.