The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005

Outline consent and premises approval

61.—(1) A doctor wishing to be granted the right to provide pharmaceutical services under regulation 60(1)(b) or (c) by arrangement with a Primary Care Trust to patients residing in an area, may apply to the Primary Care Trust in writing for—

(a) consent (in these Regulations referred to as “outline consent”) specifying the area in relation to which he wishes the outline consent to be granted; and

(b) approval of any premises from which he wishes to dispense (“premises approval”), specifying—

(i) the premises for which he wishes to be granted premises approval and whether those premises are listed premises in relation to a different area, and

(ii) whether the application arises because there has been a practice amalgamation and, if so, the names of the doctors or contractors participating in the amalgamation.

(2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be determined in accordance with paragraph (3) and regulations 18, 20(2), 33 to 38 and 62.

(3) The Primary Care Trust may refuse an application in respect of some of the premises for which approval is sought (notwithstanding that it would, if determining the application for those premises in isolation, grant it) where the number of applications for premises approval are such, or the circumstances in which they are made are such, that to grant all or some of them would prejudice the proper provision of primary medical services, dispensing services, local pharmaceutical services or pharmaceutical services in any locality.