# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020, Regulation 20: Applications involving relocation between neighbouring Local Health Board areas

Extent: E+W

(1) A Local Health Board may grant an application made by a person under regulation 15(1)(c) (applications to be included in or make amendment to a pharmaceutical list) to relocate from listed premises in the area of 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 pharmaceutical services, if—
(a) the Local Health Board, to which the application is made, is satisfied that—
(i) the change is a relocation to meet a need identified in the relevant pharmaceutical needs assessment of the Local Health Board,
(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 provision of pharmaceutical services will not be interrupted (except for such period as the Local Health Board may for good reason permit),
(iv) 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 21 (applications involving temporary relocation),
(v) the application would not, if granted, result in a significant change in the arrangements that are in place for the provision of pharmaceutical services (other than those provided by a person on a dispensing doctor list) in any part of the Local Health Board’s area, or in a controlled locality in the area of a neighbouring Local Health Board where that controlled locality is within 1.6 kilometres of the new premises, and
(b) the person consents to the removal of the premises 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 pursuant to this regulation may not, within 12 months of the date of the grant of the application (as defined in regulation 23(3)(a)), submit another application for determination under this regulation or regulation 19.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/regulation-20
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