General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Local directory of family doctors

16.—(1) Subject to the requirements of this regulation and regulation 17, a Board shall prepare, and thereafter maintain, a list to be known as the local directory of family doctors comprising, in respect of each doctor in its area whose name is included in the medical list, the following information—

(a) all the information in respect of the doctor in the medical list other than his date of birth, unless the doctor has agreed to its inclusion in the local directory;

(b) where the doctor’s date of birth is included in the medical list but he has not agreed to its inclusion in the local directory, the date of his first full registration as a medical practitioner whether pursuant to the Medical Act 1983(1) or otherwise;

(c) the sex of the doctor;

(d) details of any medical qualifications held by the doctor which he is entitled to have registered pursuant to section 16 of the Medical Act 1983 (registration of qualifications), including the date on which the qualification was awarded;

(e) the nature of any clinic provided by the doctor for his patients and the frequency with which it is held;

(f) the number of assistants and trainee general practitioners employed by him;

(g) details of—

(i) the number of other persons employed or available at his practice premises to assist him in the discharge of his obligations under the terms of service;

(ii) the nature of the services provided by each such person; and

(iii) the average number of hours normally worked by each such person during any week;

(h) any arrangements for the provision of any deputy notified to the Board under paragraph 26(3) of the terms of service; and

(i) where, and to the extent that, the doctor so requests—

(i) details of any languages, other than English, spoken by the doctor or by any person referred to in sub-paragraph (f) or (g); and

(ii) details of any particular clinical interests of the doctor.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in the case of a restricted list principal or a restricted services principal only to the extent that the Board sees fit.

(3) The Board may, to the extent that it sees fit, also include in the local directory other details or material relating to general medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services and pharmaceutical services in its area.

(4) The local directory shall include the name of each doctor in alphabetical order.

(5) Where a doctor practises in partnership or in a group practice with other doctors, the information regarding his practice which falls to be included in the local directory pursuant to paragraph (1)(e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) may, provided each doctor in the partnership or, as the case may be, the group practice agrees, be included in the entry relating to only one of those doctors.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 41, the Board may compile extracts from the information in the local directory by reference to geographical parts of the Board’s area and may make any such extract available to persons to whom, in the opinion of the Board, it is likely to be of interest.

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1983 c. 54