The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022

Pay transparency

9.  In regulation 21A (disclosure of information about NHS earnings: contractors and sub-contractors)—

(1) in paragraph (3)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b) omit “subject to paragraph (ba),”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), in paragraph (i), for “2020” substitute “2022”;

(iii) omit sub-paragraph (ba);

(iv) in sub-paragraph (c), omit paragraph (i);

(2) for paragraph (4), substitute—

“(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a) “the disclosure date”, in relation to a relevant financial year, is 30th April in the financial year which begins immediately after the end of the next financial year.”;

(3) in paragraph (8)(b), for “this regulation comes into force” substitute “the term in paragraph (7) is incorporated into the contract”;

(4) at the end of paragraph (9)(a), omit “and”;

(5) in paragraph (9)(b)(i), after “I’s” insert “NHS”; and

(6) at the end of paragraph (9)(b), insert—

“, and”;

(c) a term which requires S to use reasonable endeavours to ensure that any sub-contract entered into before the term in sub-paragraph (b) was incorporated into that sub-contract is amended to—

(i) include the term in paragraph (i) of sub-paragraph (b) in a sub-contract between S and I, and

(ii) include the term in paragraph (ii) of sub-paragraph (b) in a sub-contract between S and a partnership.”.