Part I Organisation
Persons performing primary medical services
17PF2Persons performing primary medical services
1
Regulations may provide that a health care professional of a prescribed description may not perform any primary medical service which a Health Board is, under section 2C(1), under a duty to provide or secure the provision of unless that professional is included in a list maintained under the regulations by the Health Board.
2
For the purposes of this section, “health care professional” means a member of a profession regulated by a body for the time being mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17).
3
Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision in relation to such lists and in particular as to—
a
the preparation, maintenance and publication of a list;
b
eligibility for inclusion in a list;
c
applications for inclusion (including provision for the procedure for applications to be made and dealt with and the documents to be supplied on application);
d
the grounds on which an application for inclusion may or must be granted or refused;
e
requirements with which a person included in a list must comply (including requirements as to standards of performance and patient care and as to declarations, consents or undertakings);
f
suspension or removal from a list (including the grounds for and consequences of suspension or removal);
g
circumstances in which a person included in a list may not withdraw from it;
h
payments to be made by a Health Board in respect of a person suspended from the list (including provision for the amount of, or the method of calculating, the payment to be determined by the Scottish Ministers);
i
the criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations;
j
appeals against decisions made by a Health Board under the regulations;
k
disclosure of information about applicants for inclusion, refusals of applications, or suspensions, removals or references to the Tribunal.
4
Regulations making provision as to the matters referred to in subsection (3)(k) may in particular authorise the disclosure of information—
a
by a Health Board to the Scottish Ministers; and
b
by the Scottish Ministers to a Health Board.
C117QF1Assistance and support
1
A Health Board may provide assistance and support to—
a
any person providing, or proposing to provide, primary medical services under a general medical services contract;
b
any person providing, or proposing to provide, such services in accordance with section 17C arrangements.
2
Assistance and support provided by a Health Board under subsection (1) is to be provided on such terms, including terms as to payment, as the Board think fit.
3
In this section, “assistance” includes financial assistance.