SCHEDULE 1CONTENT OF AGREEMENTS
PART 4PERSONS WHO PERFORM SERVICES
Qualifications of performers18
1
Subject to sub-paragraph (2), no medical practitioner may perform medical services under the agreement unless the practitioner is—
a
included in the primary medical services performers list for the Health Board which is under a duty to provide or secure the provision of the service to be performed;
b
not suspended from that list or from the Medical Register; and
c
not subject to interim suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983 (interim orders)77.
2
Sub-paragraph (1)(a) will not apply in the case of—
a
a medical practitioner employed in Scotland by a Health Board, in England and Wales by an NHS trust, or in Northern Ireland by a Health and Social Care trust who is providing services other than primary medical services at the practice premises;
b
a person who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals) or 21 (provisional registration) of EEA nationals with certain overseas qualifications of the Medical Act 198378 acting in the course of the person’s employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice within the meaning of section 44D of the Medical Act 1983 (approved practice settings)79; or
c
a GP Registrar who has applied to the Health Board to have the GP Registrar’s name included in the primary medical services performers list of the Health Board, until the first of the following events arises:—
i
the Health Board notifies the GP Registrar of the Board’s decision on that application;
ii
the end of a period of 2 months, starting with the date on which the GP Registrar’s vocational training scheme begins.
F12A
Sub-paragraph (1)(a) does not apply in the case of a person who is performing primary medical services by virtue of regulation 3A of the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/114).
3
In this paragraph, “vocational training scheme” has the meaning given in regulation 2 (interpretation) of the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 200480.