The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7229 p878
21/28 December 2002

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LPS contractors are better protected

Local pharmaceutical services contractors can object to new pharmacy contracts. They can do this in a way that is denied to conventional contractors faced with competition from LPS applicants.

The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc) Regulations 2002, which came into effect on 12 December, give LPS contractors the right to object to applicants on the grounds that they are neither necessary nor desirable for the proper provision of pharmaceutical services. LPS applicants are exempt from this test.