The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
These Regulations insert into the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”) new requirements relating to pharmaceutical needs assessments (“PNAs”). A PNA is a statement of the assessment each Primary Care Trust (“PCT”) must make, under section 128A(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006, of the needs in its area for pharmaceutical services provided as part of the National Health Service (“NHS”). In due course, PNAs will form the basis for decisions to grant applications for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list (listing is a prerequisite for a pharmacy business being allowed to provide services under the 2005 Regulations), and applications to change the pharmaceutical services that a listed pharmacy business provides or to change the premises from which a listed pharmacy business is allowed to provide them.