Legislation – The National Health Service (Charges, Primary Medical Services and Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Coronavirus) (Further Amendments) Regulations 2021
PART 2Amendments to the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013
Amendment of regulation 7 of the PLPS Regulations4.
(1)
Regulation 7 of the PLPS Regulations (temporary extension of pharmaceutical needs assessments and access by the NHSCB and HWBs to pharmaceutical needs assessments) is amended as follows.
(2)
In its heading, for “Primary Care Trust” substitute “earlier”
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(3)
Omit paragraph (1).
(4)
“(1A)
Prior to the publication by a HWB (“HWB1”) of the first pharmaceutical needs assessment that it prepares for its area, as required by regulation 6(A1) or (A3), the pharmaceutical needs assessment that relates to any locality within its area is the pharmaceutical needs assessment of the HWB (“HWB2”) for that locality prior to the establishment of HWB1, read with—
(a)
any supplementary statement relating to that assessment published by HWB2 under regulation 6(3) (which has become part of that assessment); and
(b)
any supplementary statement relating to that assessment published by HWB1 under regulation 6(3A).”.
(5)
In paragraph (2)(b), for “6(3), in relation to a Primary Care Trust’s” substitute “6(3A), in relation to another HWB’s”
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