Regulation 6 Subsequent assessmentsI1
England and Wales
After it has published its first pharmaceutical need assessment, each Local Health Board must publish a statement of its revised assessment—
no later than 5 years after its previous publication of a pharmaceutical needs assessment, or
at any point within 5 years of its previous publication of a pharmaceutical needs assessment, having regard to any other needs assessments the Local Health Board is under a statutory duty to publish.
A Local Health Board must make a revised assessment as soon as is reasonably practicable after identifying changes, which are of a significant extent, since the publication of its pharmaceutical needs assessment which are relevant to the granting of applications referred to in section 83 of the 2006 Act, unless it is satisfied that making a revised assessment would be a disproportionate response to those changes.
Pending the publication of a statement of a revised assessment, a Local Health Board may publish a supplementary statement explaining changes to the availability of pharmaceutical services since the publication of its pharmaceutical needs assessment (which becomes part of the assessment), where—
the changes are relevant to the granting of applications referred to in section 83 of the 2006 Act, and
the Local Health Board—
is satisfied that making a revised assessment would be a disproportionate response to those changes, or
is in the course of making a revised assessment and is satisfied that immediate modification of its pharmaceutical needs assessment is essential in order to prevent detriment to the provision of pharmaceutical services in its area.
Where a Local Health Board publishes a supplementary statement in accordance with paragraph (3), the Local Health Board must notify those bodies listed in regulation 7(1) of its publication as soon as reasonably practicable.
Annotations
Commencement
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Reg. 6 in force at 1.10.2020, see reg. 1(2)(b)