# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, Regulation 4: Amendment of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations


(1) Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (terms of service of NHS pharmacists) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 7 (preliminary matters before providing ordered drugs or appliances), after sub-paragraph (3) insert the following sub-paragraph—
“(3A) In any case where no satisfactory evidence, as required by sub-paragraph (3), is produced to P, P must ensure before the drugs or appliances are provided that the person who was asked to produce that evidence is advised, in appropriate terms, that checks are routinely undertaken to ascertain entitlement to—
(a) exemption under the Charges Regulations; or
(b) remission of charges under the Remission of Charges Regulations,
where such entitlement has been claimed, as part of the arrangements for preventing or detecting fraud or error in relation to such claims.”.
(3) After paragraph 29 (professional standards), insert the following paragraph—
“Accessing summary care records
29A. (1) If an NHS pharmacist (P) is providing pharmaceutical services to or in respect of a patient and has access to the summary information that comprises a summary care record of that patient, P must access that summary information where the conditions in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied.
(2) The conditions are that—
(a) in P’s clinical judgment it is in the best interests of the patient to do so; and
(b) in doing so P is acting in accordance with the guidance known as “The NHS Care Record Guarantee”, published in the document entitled “The Care Record Guarantee – Our Guarantee for NHS Care Records in England” that was published by the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care in January 2011.
(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).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/296/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-and-local-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-4
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