SCHEDULE 7Mandatory terms for LPS schemes
F1Contact via NHSmail and the Central Alerting System13C
1
An LPS chemist (C) must ensure that pharmacy staff at listed premises (including locums) have access to, and are able to send and receive NHSmail from, a premises specific NHSmail account.
2
C must ensure that at least two members of the pharmacy staff have live, linked NHSmail accounts to the premises specific NHSmail account (unless fewer than two members of the pharmacy staff are engaged in the provision of NHS services).
3
As regards the Central Alerting System (CAS) operated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)—
a
C must register C’s premises specific NHSmail address with MHRA as an address at which C is content to accept notifications as part of the CAS (unless they are content with the address already in the system);
b
if C changes C’s premises specific NHSmail address, P must immediately notify MHRA of C’s new premises specific NHSmail address, in accordance with paragraph (a); and
c
C must monitor C’s premises specific NHSmail account with sufficient frequency to ensure the safe and effective supply of medicinal products at or from C’s pharmacy premises, and must act on the alerts C receives as part of the CAS, as appropriate.