The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006
These Regulations govern the arrangements for the provision of local pharmaceutical services in England under agreements, known as LPS schemes, between Primary Care Trusts, who commission the services, and independent contractors, who provide them. LPS schemes have to be made in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations and of Schedule 8A to the National Health Service Act 1977 (“the 1977 Act”). Previously, local pharmaceutical services could only be provided under pilot schemes established under Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001, but as a result of these Regulations, most pilot schemes will become LPS schemes, and new proposals for pilot schemes will no longer be accepted.