The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services, Charges and Prescribing) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Amendment of regulation 18 of the principal Regulations

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

5.  In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations(1) (unforeseen benefits applications: additional matters to which the NHSCB must have regard), in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (f) insert—

(g)whether it is satisfied that the application presupposes that a gap in pharmaceutical services provision has been or is to be created—

(i)by the removal of chemist premises from a pharmaceutical list as a consequence of the grant of a consolidation application, and

(ii)since the last revision of the relevant HWB’s pharmaceutical needs assessment other than by way of a supplementary statement..

(1)

Amended by S.I. 2014/417.