# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (“the Principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which pharmaceutical services are provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.
Regulation 2 expands on the obligations put on pharmacists by paragraph 4(1) and (3) of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations. It explains that pharmacists must use all reasonable endeavours to supply the prescribed drugs without doing anything to delay or prevent that supply and to contact the prescriber where the drugs may not be available.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/128/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2010/note
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