# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010, Regulation 2: Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009


After paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 (provision of pharmaceutical services) to the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, insert—
“(1A) In furtherance of the obligations in sub-paragraphs (1) and (3), a pharmacist, when providing drugs or appliances ordered in accordance with those sub-paragraphs must—
(a) use all reasonable endeavours to provide those drugs or appliances with reasonable promptness;
(b) refrain from taking any action which may delay or prevent the dispensing of those drugs or appliances; and
(c) contact the prescriber or dentist to discuss alternative arrangements where there is likely to be, in that pharmacist’s opinion, a clinically significant delay in the dispensing of those drugs or appliances.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/128/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-2
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