PART 2Amendments relating to consolidation applications
Amendment of regulation 18 of the principal Regulations5
In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations4 (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.