The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012

Refusal: language requirement for some NHS pharmacists

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30.  An application for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list by a person not already included must be refused if the applicant is an individual (X) who qualified as a pharmacist in Switzerland or an EEA state other than the United Kingdom, unless X satisfies the Primary Care Trust that X has the level of knowledge of English which, in the interests of X and the persons making use of the services to which the application relates, is necessary for the provision of those services in the area of the Primary Care Trust.