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4. In regulation 20 of the GMS Contracts Regulations (services: general), after paragraph (5) insert—
“(6) A contract must specify that where the contractor proposes to provide private services in addition to primary medical services, to persons other than its patients the provision must take place—
(a)outside of the hours the contractor has agreed to provide primary medical services; and
(b)on no part of any practice premises in respect of which the Board makes any payments pursuant to the National Health Service (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions 2013(1) save where the private services are those specified in regulation 24(2B).”.
These directions were signed on the 28th March 2013 and came into force on the 1st April 2013. They were amended by the National Health Service (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) (Amendment) Directions 2013, which came into force on the 19th November 2013. These directions are published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-primary-medical-services-directions-2013. A hard copy can be obtained by writing to the GP Policy Team, Fourth Floor, 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU.
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