{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-responsible-pharmacist-regulations-2008/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-responsible-pharmacist-regulations-2008/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2789",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Responsible Pharmacist) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-responsible-pharmacist-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Pharmacy procedures",
  "text": "(1) The matters which must be covered by pharmacy procedures are—\n(a) the arrangements to secure that medicinal products are—\n(i) ordered;\n(ii) stored;\n(iii) prepared;\n(iv) sold by retail;\n(v) supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale;\n(vi) delivered outside the pharmacy; and\n(vii) disposed of\nin a safe and effective manner;\n(b) the circumstances in which a member of pharmacy staff who is not a pharmacist may give advice about medicinal products;\n(c) the identification of members of pharmacy staff who are, in the view of the responsible pharmacist, competent to perform certain tasks relating to the pharmacy business;\n(d) the keeping of records about the arrangements mentioned in paragraph (a);\n(e) the arrangements which are to apply during the absence of the responsible pharmacist from the premises;\n(f) the steps to be taken when there is a change of responsible pharmacist at the premises;\n(g) the procedure which is to be followed if a complaint is made about the pharmacy business;\n(h) the procedure which is to be followed if an incident occurs which may indicate that the pharmacy business is not running in a safe and effective manner; and\n(i) the manner in which changes to the pharmacy procedures are to be notified to pharmacy staff.\n(2) Pharmacy procedures must be recorded—\n(a) in writing;\n(b) in electronic form; or\n(c) in both forms.\n(3) Pharmacy procedures must be available at the premises for inspection by—\n(a) the person carrying on the pharmacy business;\n(b) the superintendent, if any;\n(c) the responsible pharmacist; and\n(d) pharmacy staff.\n(4) Pharmacy procedures must be reviewed regularly.\n(5) In this regulation, “pharmacy procedures” means the procedures referred to in section 72A(3) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 131(3) of the Act for the meaning of “sold by retail”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 131(4) of the Act for the meaning of “supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 71 is substituted by the Health Act 2006, section 28(1). Subsection (1)(a) of section 71 requires that a business which is carried on by a body corporate is under the management of a superintendent pharmacist."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2789/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:56.998427+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}