The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013

LPS pilot schemes: termination U.K.

110.  On the date (D1) on which an LPS pilot scheme terminates because of a term of that scheme provided for in directions under section 138 of, or paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 11 to, the 2006 Act (which relate to terms of LPS pilot schemes) which requires that the scheme is to terminate—

(a) for a reason that relates to the fitness of P to be a provider of piloted services, P does not have a right of return to a pharmaceutical list; or

(b) either—

(i) because listed chemist premises, other than distance selling premises, of an NHS pharmacist have opened less than a kilometre by the nearest practical route available to the public on foot from the premises specified in the LPS pilot scheme,

(ii) for a reason relating to the requisite amount of items dispensed at those premises during a financial year,

(iii) because the NHSCB (or before it the Primary Care Trust that was party to the scheme) or P has given the other party to the scheme a period of notice of not less than 6 months of their intention to terminate the scheme, or

(iv) because all LPS pilot schemes terminate on that date,

the NHSCB must include those premises, and if P is not already so included P, in the pharmaceutical list for the area of the HWB in which the premises are situated with effect from D1.