Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (“the principal Regulations”), by making provision for a Board to grant a temporary relocation for a designated period, and to allow a dispensing doctor to provide pharmaceutical services to his patients while performing personal medical services.

Regulation 2 inserts and amends definitions in the principal Regulations.

Regulations 3 and 6 remove the provisions relating to supplemental services, which now become directed services.

Regulations 4 and 5 provide for a Board to allow a temporary relocation of pharmacy premises for a specified period.

Regulations 7, 8 and 9 provide for a dispensing doctor to provide pharmaceutical services to those patients on his list to whom he is providing personal medical services under a pilot scheme and requires a Board to keep a list of dispensing doctors required to provide pharmaceutical services to their patients.

Regulation 10 requires a Board to make available for inspection a list of dispensing doctors required to provide pharmaceutical services to their patients.

Regulation 11 provides for any arrangements for the provision of directed services by a chemist to be included as part of the chemist’s terms of service.

Regulation 12 provides for the complaints procedure established for a personal medical services pilot scheme to also apply to the provision of pharmaceutical services under such a scheme.

Regulations 13 and 14 provide for a minor amendment to the wording on the application form used by chemists or persons other than chemists when seeking a minor relocation of pharmacy premises and introduce new forms to be used when applying for a temporary relocation.