About Market Entry
All applications/notifications can be submitted, tracked, viewed & edited online via the PCSE Online Portal.
The online system allows you to navigate through the correct application/notification process whether you are a Body Corporate, Sole Trader, Partnership or Dispensing GP.
Reduce your carbon footprint by submitting your application electronically, as there is no need for paper forms or cheques to be submitted via post. Applicants can now pay online via a bank transfer.
The applications and notifications below can be made using PCSE Online.
List of applications and notifications that can be made on PCSE Online
| Change of Director and/or Superintendent - Pharmacy | Change of Location (Neighbouring HWB) |
| Change of Director - DAC | Change of Ownership |
| Identified Current Need | Combined Change of Ownership and change of location (Same HWB) |
| Identified Future Need | Combined Change of Ownership and change of location (Neighbouring HWB) |
| Identified Improvements or Better Access | Right of Return |
| Identified Future Improvements or better access | Dispensing GP – Outline consent & Premises Approval |
| Unforeseen Benefits | Dispensing GP – Relocation before outline consent |
| Distance Selling | Dispensing GP – Relocation after outline consent |
| Change of Location (Same HWB) | Consolidation |
From 1 October 2024, the applications process for inclusion on a pharmaceutical list, changes to superintendent and/or directors, either as a community pharmacy or as a dispensing appliance contractor, has changed.
References no longer need to be provided in respect of specified pharmacists.
There is a transitional provision for applications/notifications submitted before the new arrangements come into force.
This allows NHS England (and therefore ICBs) to continue to have regard to references already received and to base requests for further information on such references.
PCSE are therefore required to accept applications/notifications without referees from 1 October 2024, and to stop requesting references (even where referee details have been provided) from the same date. Any applications/notifications received before 1 October 2024 will follow the process previously in place, with details of referees provided by applicants and followed up by PCSE.
Getting started
Register using the tile below to get started - this will open an email in your default email program. If you're already registered, click below to log in to PCSE Online.
From April 2024, PCSE will no longer process payments made by cheque. Therefore, application fee payments must be made via bank transfer.
When your application documentation is received via email to pcse.marketentry@nhs.net or by post to Primary Care Support England, PO Box 350, Darlington, DL1 9QN, a member of the Pharmacy Market Administration Services (PMAS) team will contact you via email.
You will be issued with a unique payment reference code for you to use when you make payment.
Please refrain from making payment until you have been issued a payment reference code.
If submitting via PCSE Online, you must select the bank transfer option and use your application number as your payment reference code.
Further support
Visit our Resources page for a wealth of information to help you with your Market Entry application.
If you encounter any difficulties in using PCSE Online, please contact PCSE.Marketentry@nhs.net
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