The Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and General Medical Services (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Medical practices qualifying for approval

2.—(1) In this regulation—

(a) “General Practice (GP) Registrar” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2 of the General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1); and

(b) “training practitioner” means a practitioner falling within regulation 7(1) of the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(2).

(2) The following description of medical practice is prescribed for the purposes of section 11(4) of the Medical Act 1983—

(a) the practice includes at least one doctor who is a training practitioner;

(b) the training practitioner (or, where there are more than one of them in the practice, the one who is to take training responsibility for the PRHO) has confirmed in writing to the university or other body concerned with the practice’s approval for the purposes of PRHO training under section 10 or 15A of the Medical Act 1983, that he is prepared to accept training responsibility for the PRHO;

(c) each partner (if any) of the training practitioner has also confirmed in writing to that university or other body his willingness for the training practitioner to undertake training responsibility for a PRHO; and

(d) the training practitioner with training responsibility for the PRHO will not at the same time have training responsibility for any other PRHO or for a General Practice (GP) Registrar.

(1)

S.R. 1997 No. 380 as amended by S.R. 1998 No. 9 and S.R. 1999 No. 100

(2)

S.R. 1998 No. 13