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6.—[F2(A1) Any HWB that has not published a pharmaceutical needs assessment before 1st July 2020 must publish its first pharmaceutical needs assessment by 1st April 2022.
(A2) Any HWB that has published a pharmaceutical needs assessment before 1st July 2020 must publish a revised assessment by 1st April 2022 (but it is not required to publish a revised assessment before that date).]
(1) After it has published its first [F3or a revised assessment required by 1st April 2022 by virtue of paragraph (A2),] each HWB must publish a statement of its revised assessment within 3 years of its previous publication of a pharmaceutical needs assessment.
(2) [F4After it has published its first or a revised assessment required by 1st April 2022 by virtue of paragraph (A1) or (A2),] a HWB must make a revised assessment as soon as is reasonably practicable after identifying changes since the previous assessment, which are of a significant extent, to the need for pharmaceutical services in its area, having regard in particular to changes to—
(a)the number of people in its area who require pharmaceutical services;
(b)the demography of its area; and
(c)the risks to the health or well-being of people in its area,
unless it is satisfied that making a revised assessment would be a disproportionate response to those changes.
(3) Pending the publication of a statement of a revised assessment, a HWB may publish a supplementary statement explaining changes to the availability of pharmaceutical services since the publication of its or a Primary Care Trust's pharmaceutical needs assessment (and any such supplementary statement becomes part of that assessment), where—
(a)the changes are relevant to the granting of applications referred to in section 129(2)(c)(i) or (ii) of the 2006 Act; and
(b)the HWB—
(i)is satisfied that making its first or a revised assessment would be a disproportionate response to those changes, or
(ii)is in the course of making its first or a revised assessment and is satisfied that immediate modification of its pharmaceutical needs assessment is essential in order to prevent significant detriment to the provision of pharmaceutical services in its area.
[F5(4) Where chemist premises are removed from a pharmaceutical list as a consequence of the grant of a consolidation application, if in the opinion of the relevant HWB the removal does not create a gap in pharmaceutical services provision that could be met by a routine application—
(a)to meet a current or future need for pharmaceutical services; or
(b)to secure improvements, or better access, to pharmaceutical services,
the relevant HWB must publish a supplementary statement explaining that, in its view, the removal does not create such a gap, and any such statement becomes part of its pharmaceutical needs assessment.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 6 heading inserted (14.9.2020) by The National Health Service (Coronavirus) (Charges and Further Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/885), regs. 1(2), 4(2)
F2Reg. 6(A1)(A2) inserted (14.9.2020) by The National Health Service (Coronavirus) (Charges and Further Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/885), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(a)
F3Words in reg. 6(1) substituted (14.9.2020) by The National Health Service (Coronavirus) (Charges and Further Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/885), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(b)
F4Words in reg. 6(2) inserted (14.9.2020) by The National Health Service (Coronavirus) (Charges and Further Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/885), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(c)
F5Reg. 6(4) inserted (5.12.2016) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services, Charges and Prescribing) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1077), regs. 1(1), 3
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