Regulation 12 Powers to require declarations and self-assessments, as part of accountable officers’ monitoring and auditing arrangements or otherwise

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 12(2) omitted by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.9, Consequential Amendments and Transitory, Transitional and Saving Provisions) 2009 Sch. 5 para. 23(c)
reg. 12(3) substituted by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.9, Consequential Amendments and Transitory, Transitional and Saving Provisions) 2009 Sch. 5 para. 23(c)
reg. 12(4) words substituted by Pharmacy 2010 Sch. 4 para. 54(3)

(1)

An accountable officer, who is an accountable officer nominated or appointed by a Primary Care Trust or a Health Board, may request a periodic declaration and a self-assessment from a general medical practitioner on (in England) its medical performers list or (in Scotland) its primary medical services performers list, which must state—

(a)

whether the practitioner uses controlled drugs at any of the premises from which he provides primary medical services as part of the health service; and

(b)

how the practitioner manages and uses controlled drugs at those premises.

(2)

The Healthcare Commission may request an appropriate periodic declaration and an appropriate self-assessment from an NHS trust, an NHS foundation trust or a person registered with them that provides health care.

(3)

The Commission for Social Care Inspection may request an appropriate periodic declaration and an appropriate self-assessment from an English care home.

(4)

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain may request an appropriate periodic declaration and an appropriate self-assessment from a registered pharmacy.

(5)

In this regulation, “general medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner whose name is included in the register maintained by the General Medical Council under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003^f1 (the General Practitioner Register).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2003/1250.