Applications for inclusion in the Pharmaceutical List

Applicants must be registered pharmacists or bodies corporate with a superintendent pharmacist. Those not already included in the NHS Norfolk Pharmaceutical List must also complete a fitness to practice declaration.

Application forms are available from NHS Norfolk’s primary care support agency at the address and contact details below. Applications are processed on behalf of NHS Norfolk by the support agency and determined by NHS Norfolk’s Pharmacy & Dispensing Committee.

Anglia Support Partnership
Contractor Services
North Building
PO Box 170
St Clements Hospital
Foxhall Road
Ipswich, IP3 8LS

Tel: 01473 329132 (direct line); Fax: 01473 329074

Email: wyn.french@suffolkpct.nhs.uk or sam.offord@suffolkpct.nhs.uk 

Applicants for one of the categories of application exempt from the necessary or expedient test must ensure that they understand which directed services are required to be provided as a condition of granting exemption from the control of entry criteria. A list of these services is available by clicking here:

List of directed services

Designated date for receipt of applications

Applications may be submitted at any time but the date of receipt of applications is set as 12 noon on the third Wednesday of each month when processing of applications will begin (“the Designated Date”), with the following exceptions:

• applications for changes of ownership and relocations of less than 500 metres are normally dealt with as soon as possible after receipt though may, at NHS Norfolks discretion be held until the Designated Date.
• there will be no Designated Date in December. Any applications received in December will be dealt with on the first Designated Date of the following month.

Where applications are held until the Designated Date the administrative timescales, particularly in respect of determining applications, set out in the regulations will commence on that date as set out above. Applications received before the Designated Date will be held confidentially until processing commences on the Designated Date. Applications received after the Designated Date in one month will be held confidentially until processing commences on the Designated Date of the following month.

In the event that more than one application is received for the same area in a particular month NHS Norfolk has discretion under the regulations to consider two or more applications together in relation to each other. NHS Norfolk will consider all the evidence provided about the competing applications and where all aspects are equal between the competing applications, NHS Norfolk will determine competing applications on the date and time that the first application was received (based on the “first past the post” principle).

Controlled localities

The whole of NHS Norfolk area is a controlled locality with the following exceptions:

Attleborough
Cromer
Diss
Downham Market
East Dereham Hunstanton
King’s Lynn
North Walsham
Norwich and suburbs
Sheringham
Thetford
Watton
Wymondham

Further information about these localities, including maps, are available from the support agency contacts

Regulations and Department of Health guidance:

Full copies of the regulations and associated Department of Health guidance are available on the NHS Primary Care Contracting website