The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013

Information to be included in all routine and excepted applications

1.—(1) The information mentioned below in this paragraph must be included in all routine and excepted applications.

(2) The name of the relevant HWB.

(3) The type of application being made (for example, the application is for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list and a change of ownership application), including a statement of whether the application is a routine or an excepted application.

(4) The name and address of the applicant (A).

(5) If A is an individual or a partnership carrying on a retail pharmacy business, A or each partner’s registration number in the GPhC register.

(6) If A is a body corporate carrying on a retail pharmacy business, the name and registration number in the GPhC register of A’s superintendent.

(7) If A is seeking the listing of premises not already listed in relation to A (whether or not A is already listed)—

(a) either—

(i) the address of the premises, or

(ii) if the address is not known and it is a routine application, A’s best estimate of where the proposed premises will be;

(b) whether the applicant is currently in possession of the premises;

(c) the proposed core opening hours in respect of the premises; and

(d) the total proposed opening hours for the premises (having regard to both the proposed core opening hours and any supplementary opening hours).

(8) If A is seeking to provide directed services—

(a) details of the directed services to be provided;

(b) confirmation that A is accredited to provide the services, where that accreditation is a prerequisite for the provision of those services;

(c) confirmation that the premises are accredited in respect of the provision of the services, where that accreditation is a prerequisite for the provision of those services; and

(d) a floor plan showing the consultation area where A proposes to offer directed services (where relevant, unless one cannot be provided for reasons that are good cause).

(9) A is not entitled to ask for a routine application to be considered, in the alternative, as an excepted application, or for an excepted application to be considered, in the alternative, as a routine application.

(10) An estimate of the location of premises is only a “best estimate” for the purposes of sub-paragraph (7)(a)(ii) if the NHSCB is satisfied that—

(a) it is the best estimate that A can reasonably make at the time of the application of the location of the premises; and

(b) its reasons for granting or refusing the application would be essentially the same if the applicant located, if the application was granted, at any location within the range of possible locations covered by the estimate.