The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992

Advertisement of vacancies

12.—(1) Where it has been resolved that a vacancy has arisen or is about to arise in any locality, the FHSA for that locality shall, within such period as the Medical Practices Committee shall direct, give notice of the vacancy in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) A notice of a vacancy—

(a) shall include—

(i) details of the nature and location of the vacancy,

(ii) where the vacancy is one in connection with which the Medical Practices Committee has indicated to the FHSA the nature of any condition which it is likely to impose under section 33(4) of the Act in relation to a successful applicant, details of that condition, and

(iii) the date by which any application to fill the vacancy must be sent or delivered to that FHSA;

(b) may include such other information about the vacancy or the locality as that FHSA considers appropriate, and

(c) shall be published in such manner as appears to that FHSA to be likely to bring the vacancy to the attention of doctors within and outside its locality.

(3) In this regulation and in regulation 13, “vacancy” means a requirement for—

(a) an additional doctor to provide general medical services otherwise than in succession to another doctor, as mentioned in regulation 5(2)(b); or

(b) a doctor to succeed to a practice which has been rendered vacant, as mentioned in regulation 5(6).