# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services, Charges and Prescribing) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, Regulation 5: Amendment of regulation 18 of the principal Regulations


In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations (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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1077/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-charges-and-prescribing-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-5
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