Opening Hours

Pharmaceutical list of opening hours, provided by The Humber and North Yorkshire ICB:

Humber Pharmacy Opening Hours – 12.10.26

Pharmacy opening hours are part of pharmacies’ Terms of Service for providing NHS pharmaceutical services.

Most pharmacies must open for 40 core contractual hours (this includes Distance Selling Premises (DSP) pharmacies).

Some pharmacies must open between 72-100 core contractual hours (called 100-hour pharmacies for those that have opened under the former exemption from the control of entry test).

All pharmacies may open for additional supplementary hours.

Pharmacies are not required to open (to provide core contractual hours) on, for example, Bank holidays but some may be directed by the NHS to provide Bank holiday opening hours.

On occasion, pharmacies may have to close. This may be a planned temporary closure, for example, for the refurbishment of the premises, or an unplanned temporary closure, if, for example, that morning the pharmacist reports they are ill and unable to work.

Visit CPE for more info on the following:

• Latest updates
• Regulatory changes
• 2025/26 contractual settlement changes
• Pharmacy opening hours
• Changing core contractual hours
• Changing supplementary hours
• Rest Breaks
• Multiple applications/notifications
• 100-hour pharmacy opening hours reduction
• Planned temporary suspensions/closures
• Unplanned temporary suspensions/closures
• Bank holiday opening hours
• Local Hours Plans
• FAQs
• Community Pharmacy England resources
• Other resources

Failures to open: 

All failures to open and temporary closures of your pharmacy should be reported to the ICB. Please click the link below to visit our associated help page. Find out more.

Your local ICB Primary Care Team can be contacted on:

For information on Bank Holidays – see Bank Holidays tab