PART 2AMENDMENT OF THE GMS CONTRACTS REGULATIONS

Amendment of Regulation 2 of the GMS Contracts Regulations2

1

Regulation 2 (interpretation) of the GMS Contracts Regulations shall be amended as provided in the following paragraphs.

2

In the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—

a

in paragraph (b)(ii), omit “or”;

b

in paragraph (b)(iii), for “and”, in the second place where it occurs, substitute “or”; and

c

after paragraph (b)(iii), insert—

iv

the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council in pursuance of Article 5 of the Health Professions Order 20016 relating to—

aa

chiropodists and podiatrists;

bb

physiotherapists; or

cc

radiographers: diagnostic or therapeutic;

dd

optometrists, and