Valid from 01/08/2008
(1)Section 28X of the 1977 Act (persons performing primary medical and dental services) is amended as follows.
(2)After subsection (2) insert—
“(2A)Regulations may provide that a health care professional of a prescribed description may not perform any primary ophthalmic service for which a Primary Care Trust is responsible unless he is included in a list maintained under the regulations by a Primary Care Trust.”
(3)In subsection (3)(b), for “medical or dental” substitute “ medical, dental or ophthalmic ”.
(4)After subsection (6) insert—
“(6A)Regulations under this section may, in particular, also prescribe the qualifications and experience which a medical practitioner who applies for inclusion in a list mentioned in subsection (2A) must have, and may—
(a)provide for the practitioner to show to the satisfaction of a committee recognised by the Secretary of State for the purpose that he possesses such qualifications and experience;
(b)confer on a person who is dissatisfied with the determination of such a committee a right of appeal to a committee appointed by the Secretary of State; and
(c)provide for anything which appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in connection with that right of appeal.”
(5)In the heading, for “medical and dental” substitute “ medical, dental and ophthalmic ”.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 37-42 repealed (1.3.2007 coming into force in accordance with s. 8(4)-(6)) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1)