C1Part I Organisation

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F1Persons performing pharmaceutical care services

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S. 17X and preceding cross-heading inserted (prosp.) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 23, 43(3)

17XPersons performing pharmaceutical care services

1

Regulations may provide that a registered pharmacist may not perform any pharmaceutical care service which a Health Board is, under section 2CA(1), under a duty to provide or secure the provision of unless that pharmacist is included in a list maintained under the regulations by the Health Board.

2

Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision in relation to such lists and in particular as to—

a

the preparation, maintenance and publication of a list;

b

eligibility for inclusion in a list;

c

applications for inclusion (including provision for the procedure for applications to be made and dealt with and documents to be supplied on application);

d

the grounds on which an application for inclusion must be granted or refused;

e

requirements with which a person included in a list must comply (including requirements as to standards of performance and patient care and as to declarations, consents or undertakings);

f

suspension or removal from a list (including the grounds for and consequences of suspension or removal);

g

circumstances in which a person included in a list may not withdraw from it;

h

payments to be made by a Health Board in respect of a person suspended from the list (including provision for the amount of, or the method of calculating, the payment to be determined by the Scottish Ministers);

i

criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations;

j

disclosure of information about applicants for inclusion, refusals of applications, or suspensions, removals or references to the Tribunal.

3

Regulations making provision as to the matters referred to in subsection (2)(j) may in particular authorise the disclosure of information—

a

by a Health Board to the Scottish Ministers; and

b

by the Scottish Ministers to a Health Board.