Amendments to paragraph 79 (clinical governance) of schedule 1

23.  After sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 79 of schedule 1 insert—

(3A) Where a health care professional employed by the Health Board performs clinical services from the provider’s practice premises—

(a)the provider must provide the Health Board with information about its system of clinical governance which is sufficient to allow that health care professional to effectively co-operate with that system of clinical governance, and

(b)the Health Board must ensure that any such health care professional employed by the Health Board is aware of the provider’s system of clinical governance.

(3B) Where the Health Board provides clinical services from the provider’s practice premises, the Health Board must have regard to the provider’s system of clinical governance..