The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

PART 3 ARRANGEMENTS UNDER REGULATION 24

Temporary arrangements under regulation 24 of the 1997 Regulations

15.—(1) Where –

(a) on 31st March 2004 a Board is making arrangements under –

(i) regulation 24(2) of the 1997 Regulations(1) in the case of a medical practitioner who has been suspended, or

(ii) regulation 24(6) of the 1997 Regulations;

(b) no notice of termination of those arrangements has been given under regulation 24(12) which takes effect on 1st April 2004; and

(c) the Board has not entered into –

(i) a general medical services contract pursuant to Article 3 on or before 31st March 2004, or

(ii) a default contract,

with the medical practitioner on whose behalf it is making those arrangements,

paragraph (2) shall apply.

(2) In the circumstances specified in paragraph (1), the Board shall, if the medical practitioner with whom the temporary arrangements were made so wishes, make contractual arrangements with him, with effect from 1st April 2004, for the provision of such primary medical services as he was providing under those arrangements to the patients to whom he was providing those services.

(3) A contract entered into by a Board pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be for such period as the Board may agree with the contractor but may not continue beyond the date on which the medical practitioner for whom the contractual arrangements are in place ceases to be entitled to enter into a general medical services contract with that Board.

(4) The contractor’s list of patients for the purpose of the contractual arrangements made pursuant to paragraph (2) shall, at the start of those arrangements, consist of the persons who, on 31st March 2004, were –

(a) temporarily assigned to other medical practitioners under paragraph (16) of regulation 24; or

(b) included on the list of the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements were in place.

(5) Where the contractual arrangements are made with a person who has his own list of patients, the contractual arrangements shall require the lists to be kept separate.

(1)

Regulation 24(2) was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100