The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Applications involving minor relocation between neighbouring Local Health Board areas

14.—(1) A Local Health Board must grant an application made by a person under regulation 8(1)(c) (applications to be included in or for amendment to a pharmaceutical list) to relocate from listed premises in the area of a neighbouring Local Health Board to new premises in the area of the Local Health Board to which the application is made, and at those premises the person intends to provide the same pharmaceutical services, if—

(a) the Local Health Board to which the application is made is satisfied that—

(i) the change is a minor relocation,

(ii) for the patients who are accustomed to accessing pharmaceutical services at the existing premises, the location of the new premises is not significantly less accessible,

(iii) the same pharmaceutical services will be provided at the new premises as are provided at the listed premises,

(iv) the provision of pharmaceutical services will not be interrupted (except for such period as the Local Health Board may for good cause allow),

(v) the premises specified in the application from which the person wishes to relocate are not premises to which the person has temporarily relocated under regulation 15 (applications involving temporary relocation); and

(b) the person consents to the removal of his or her name from the pharmaceutical list maintained by the Local Health Board in whose area the current listed premises are located with effect from the date on which the provision of pharmaceutical services from the new premises commences.

(2) A person who has had an application granted under this regulation may not, within twelve months of the date of the grant of the application (as defined in regulation 17(3)(a)) submit another application for determination under this regulation or under regulation 13.