NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st November 1993. Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 2 1 The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation. 2 For regulation 8(2)(b)(i), there shall be substituted the following— i was given notice of the application under regulation 5(1)(c) or regulation 5(2)(c), and . 3 After regulation 16, there shall be inserted the following new regulation— Additional professional services 16A 1 A chemist may, in addition, undertake to provide additional professional services. 2 In these Regulations, “additional professional services” means— a publishing a leaflet (practice leaflet) which shall include— i a list of the pharmaceutical services which the chemist has undertaken to provide and in respect of which his name is included in a pharmaceutical list of the FHSA , ii the name, address and telephone number of the pharmacy from which he provides those services and the hours in each day of the week during which he provides those services from those premises, iii the arrangements made by the chemist to provide, or such arrangements as the chemist has made with other chemists to provide, pharmaceutical services to any person who needs those services in an emergency or outside of the normal hours during which the chemist provides pharmaceutical services, iv the procedure by which any person may comment upon the provision of pharmaceutical services undertaken by the chemist; b displaying such health promotion leaflets, posters and publications as the FHSA may, in consultation with the Local Pharmaceutical Committee, approve. . 4 In regulation 18(1)(g) (standards of, and payments for, drugs and appliances), after the word “services” there shall be inserted the words “and additional professional services”. 5 In paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 (provision of pharmaceutical services), in sub-paragraph (9)(b), for the words “Schedule 1” there shall be substituted the words “Schedule 4 or 5”. 6 In paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 (premises and hours), in sub-paragraph (13)(b), the words “to be provided by the FHSA in the form prescribed in Part IV of Schedule 3” shall be omitted. 7 In paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 (remuneration of chemists)— a after sub-paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following new sub-paragraph— 1A A chemist who has undertaken to proide additional professional services within the meaning of regulation 16A shall, on request, permit the FHSA or another person on its behalf at any reasonable time to inspect the premises from which those services are provided for the purpose of satisfying itself that those services are being provided in accordance with the undertaking. ; b after sub-paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following new sub-paragraph— 2A The FHSA shall make such payments, if any, as are provided for by the Drug Tariff to chemists who provide additional professional services within the meaning of regulation 16A. . Virginia Bottomley One of Her Majesty s Principal Secretaries of State, Department of Health 11th October 1993