The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Insertion of new regulation 67A into the PMS Agreements Regulations

7.  After regulation 67 of the PMS Agreements Regulations (provision of information) insert—

“Provision of information: GP access data

67A.— (1) Subject to paragraph (4), a contractor must collect such information relating to patient access to primary medical services at the contractor’s practice (“GP access data”) as the Board may reasonably require for the purposes of, or in connection with, the contract.

(2) The contractor must submit an online return to the Board in respect of any GP access data collected by it using the Primary Care Web Tool (“PCWT”) facility(1) which is provided by the Board to the contractor for this purpose.

(3) The contractor must submit an online return of GP access data to the Board twice in every financial year—

(a) by 31st October 2016 and 31st March 2017 in respect of the financial year that ends on 31st March 2017; and

(b) by 30th September and 31st March respectively for each subsequent financial year until 31st March 2021.

(4) The requirements of this regulation do not apply where the contractor does not have access to computer systems and software which would enable it to use the PCWT facility to submit an online return of GP access data to the Board.”.

(1)

The “PCWT facility” is the approved internet webtool made available by NHS England to contractors for the purposes of submitting GP access data online.