The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Amendment of Schedule 15 E+W

19.—(1) Schedule 15 (definitions) is amended as follows.

(2) In the appropriate place, insert the following new expressions:

(a) “primary care network” and for the corresponding entry in Column 2 insert “a network of primary medical services contractors and other providers of services which has been approved by the National Health Service Commissioning Board, serving an identified geographical area(1)”;

(b) “primary care network management company” and for the corresponding entry in Column 2 insert “a partnership or incorporated legal entity that is a party to a primary care network standard sub-contract and under which provides services to that network that are related to the management of that network”; and

(c) “primary care network standard sub-contract” and for the corresponding entry in Column 2 insert “a sub-contract that complies with the National Health Service Commissioning Board’s template sub-contract, “Sub-contract for the provision of services related to the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service 2022/23”(2)”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 19 in force at 1.4.2023, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

The Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service Contract Specification published on 31 March 2021, covering primary care networks is available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/network-contract-des-specification-2021-22 or hard copies are available from the Primary Care Strategy and NHS Contracts team, NHS England, Area 2D, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH.

(2)

The subcontract for the provision of services related to the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service 2022/23 published on 31 August 2022 is available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/subcontract-for-the-provision-of-services-related-to-the-network-contract-directed-enhanced-service-2022-23/ or hard copies are available from the Primary Care Strategy and NHS Contracts team, NHS England, Area 2D, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH.