The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Provision of information to a medical officer etc

76.—(1) The contractor is to, if it is satisfied that the patient has given explicit consent—

(a) supply in writing to any person specified in sub-paragraph (3), within such reasonable period as that person may specify, such clinical information as any of the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(a) to (d) considers relevant about a patient to whom the contractor or a person acting on behalf of the contractor has issued or has refused to issue a medical certificate; and

(b) answer any inquiries by any person mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) about—

(i) a prescription form or medical certificate issued or created by, or on behalf of, the contractor; or

(ii) any statement which the contractor or a person acting on behalf of that contractor has made in a report.

(2) For the purposes of being satisfied that a patient has given explicit consent, a contractor may rely on an assurance in writing from any person mentioned to sub-paragraph (3) that the explicit consent of the patient has been obtained, unless the contractor has reason to believe that the patient does not consent.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), the persons are—

(a) a medical officer;

(b) a nursing officer;

(c) an occupational therapist;

(d) a physiotherapist; or

(e) an officer of the Department for Work and Pensions who is acting on behalf of, and at the direction of, any person specified in paragraphs (a) to (d).

(4) In this paragraph—

(a) “medical officer” means a medical practitioner who is—

(i) employed or engaged by the Department for Work and Pensions; or

(ii) provided by an organisation under a contract entered into with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;

(b) “nursing officer” means a health care professional who is registered on the Nursing and Midwifery Register and—

(i) employed or engaged by the Department for Work and Pensions; or

(ii) provided by an organisation under a contract entered into with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;

(c) “occupational therapist” means a health care professional who is registered in the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001(1) relating to occupational therapists and—

(i) employed or engaged by the Department for Work and Pensions; or

(ii) provided by an organisation under a contract entered into with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; and

(d) “physiotherapist” means a health care professional who is registered in the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council under article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 relating to physiotherapists and—

(i) employed or engaged by the Department for Work and Pensions; or

(ii) provided by an organisation under a contract entered into with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

(1)

S.I. 2002/254, as retitled by section 213(6) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7). Article 5 was amended by S.I. 2009/1182. The title of this Order is the Health and Social Work Profession Order 2002 but it is cited as the Health and Social Work Profession Order 2001 in accordance with section 213(4) of the Health and Social care Act 2012 c.7.