The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013

Medical performers list

24.—(1) A medical practitioner may not perform any primary medical services unless that medical practitioner is a general medical practitioner and is included in the medical performers list.

This is subject to paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) A licensed medical practitioner, who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals etc.) or 21 (provisional registration of EEA national etc. with certain overseas qualifications) of the Medical Act 1983(1), may perform primary medical services, when the medical practitioner is not included in the medical performers list, while acting in the course of the medical practitioner’s employment as part of an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors within the meaning of section 10A of the Medical Act 1983 (programmes for provisionally registered doctors) in a medical practice which is a recognised practice setting for the purposes of section 44D of that Act (approved practice settings)(2).

(3) A registered medical practitioner who falls within paragraph (4) may perform primary medical services when not included in the medical performers list in so far as the performance of those services constitutes a part of a programme of post-registration supervised clinical practice approved by the General Medical Council (“a post-registration programme”).

(4) A registered medical practitioner falls within this paragraph if that medical practitioner—

(a) is not a GP Registrar;

(b) is undertaking a post-registration programme;

(c) has notified the Board at least 24 hours before commencing any part of such a programme in England; and

(d) has, with that notification, provided the Board with sufficient evidence to satisfy it that the medical practitioner is undergoing a post-registration programme.

(5) A GP Registrar, who has applied in accordance with these Regulations to the Board for inclusion in the medical performers list, may perform primary medical services, despite not being included in that list, until the first of the following arises—

(a) the date on which the Board notifies that GP Registrar of its decision on the application for inclusion; or

(b) the end of a period of 3 months, starting with the date on which that GP Registrar begins a foundation training scheme.

(1)

Section 15 was amended by S.I. 2006/1914. Section 15A was inserted by S.I. 2000/3041 and amended by 2006/1914, S.I. 2007/3101 and S.I. 2011/1043. Section 21 was amended by S.I. 1996/1591, S.I. 2002/3135, S.I. 2006/1914 and S.I. 2007/3101.

(2)

Section 10A was inserted by S.I. 2006/1914 and amended by S.I. 2008/3131. Section 44D was inserted by S.I. 2006/1914.