The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Applications involving minor relocation within a Local Health Board’s area

13.—(1) A person who has made an application under regulation 8(1)(a) (applications to be included in or for amendment to a pharmaceutical list) may at any time after making the application but before the end of the relevant period (as defined in regulation 17(3)(b) (procedure following grant of an application)) notify the Local Health Board that he or she wishes to change the premises from which he or she intends to provide the pharmaceutical services specified in the application and the Local Health Board may amend the premises specified in the original application if it is satisfied that—

(a) the change is a minor relocation;

(b) the pharmaceutical services specified in the application that would have been provided at the premises specified in the original application will be provided at the new premises; and

(c) 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.

(2) A Local Health Board must grant an application made by a person under regulation 8(1)(b)(ii) to relocate from listed premises to new premises at which the person intends to provide the same pharmaceutical services if it is satisfied that—

(a) the change is a minor relocation;

(b) 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;

(c) the same pharmaceutical services will be provided at the new premises as are provided at the listed premises;

(d) the provision of pharmaceutical services will not be interrupted (except for such period as the Local Health Board may for good cause allow); and

(e) 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 15 (applications involving temporary relocation).

(3) A person who has had an application granted under this regulation may not, within twelve months of the date of the grant of the application (as defined in regulation 17(3)(a)) submit another application for determination under this regulation or under regulation 14.