Paragraph 9 Additional requirements in relation to electronic prescribing

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

Sch. 2 para. 6(6) words omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(a)(i)
sch 2 rev in pt (19.1.2007) by National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) 2006 reg 7
Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(c) added by Local Involvement Networks 2008 reg. 8
Sch. 2 para. 25 substituted by Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints 2009 Sch. para. 2
sch 2 am by National Health Service (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Community Pharmaceutical Services and Optometrist Prescribing) 2009 regs 29, 34
Sch. 2 para. 18 words substituted by National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services and Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2010 reg. 11(c)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(i) words inserted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(a)(i)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(i) words omitted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(a)(ii)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(i) words inserted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(a)(iii)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(ii) words inserted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(b)
Sch. 2 para. 6(6)(f) words omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(a)(ii)
Sch. 2 para. 6(7) omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(b)
Sch. 2 para. 6(8)(a) omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(c)
Sch. 2 para. 6(8A) inserted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(d)
Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(b) omitted by Local Involvement Networks 2008 Sch. para. 11(4)

(1)

A contractor must, if requested to do so by any person—

(a)

explain to him the ETP service, whether or not it is a service which is available through its pharmacy; and

(b)

where the ETP service is not available through its pharmacy, provide him with contact details of at least two pharmacies in his area through which the service is available, if these details are known to the contractor.

(2)

Where the ETP service is available through its pharmacy, the contractor must, if requested to do so by any person, enter in that person’s NHS Care Record—

(a)

where the person does not have a nominated dispensing contractor, the dispensing contractor chosen by that person; and

(b)

where the person does have a nominated dispensing contractor—

(i)

a replacement dispensing contractor, or

(ii)

a further dispensing contractor,

chosen by that person.

(3)

Paragraph (2)(b)(ii) does not apply if the number of nominated dispensing contractors for that person would thereby exceed the maximum number permitted by the ETP service.