SCHEDULE 4 U.K.[F1 NHS England’s]Terms of service of NHS pharmacists

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1

PART 3 U.K.Hours of opening

[F2 Pharmacy opening hours: arrangements while a disease is or in anticipation of a disease being imminently pandemic etc. U.K.

27A.— (1) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Part, the core or supplementary opening hours of an NHS pharmacist (P) may be changed by [F1 NHS England] where, as a consequence of a disease being, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently—

(a) pandemic; and

(b) a serious risk or potentially a serious risk to human health,

[F1 NHS England] with the agreement of the Secretary of State has made an announcement to the effect that, in order to assist in the management of the serious risk or potentially serious risk to human health, [F1 NHS England] may, in the area to which the announcement relates and in the circumstances specified in the announcement, notify NHS pharmacists of changes to core and supplementary opening hours for the period specified in the announcement.

(2) Where paragraph (1) applies, where [F1 NHS England] notifies P of changes to P’s core or supplementary hours at P’s pharmacy premises, those are P’s core and supplementary opening hours for the period that [F1 NHS England] specifies in the notification (unless [F1 NHS England] notifies P of further changes to P’s opening hours).]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 4 para. 27A inserted (27.3.2020) by The National Health Service (Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/351), regs. 1(2), 9(3)