Regulation 5 Amendment of regulation 18 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations^f1 (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.”.