National Health Service Act 2006

159 National disqualification

(1) If the FHSAA removes the practitioner from a list, it may also decide to disqualify him from inclusion in—

(a) the pharmaceutical lists prepared by each Primary Care Trust,

(b) the supplementary lists prepared by each Primary Care Trust,

(c) the lists under section 91, 106, or 123 prepared by each Primary Care Trust,

(d) the lists under section 146 prepared by each Primary Care Trust, or the lists corresponding to the lists under section 91 prepared by each Primary Care Trust by virtue of regulations made under section 145,

(e) the lists corresponding to the lists mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) prepared by each Local Health Board under or by virtue of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42),

or only from inclusion in one or more descriptions of such lists prepared by each Primary Care Trust and each Local Health Board, the description being specified by the FHSAA in its decision.

(2) A decision by the FHSAA to do what is mentioned in subsection (1) is referred to in this section as the imposition of a national disqualification.

(3) The FHSAA may also impose a national disqualification on a practitioner if it dismisses an appeal by him against the refusal by a Primary Care Trust to include him in such a list.

(4) The Primary Care Trust may apply to the FHSAA for a national disqualification to be imposed on a person after the Primary Care Trust has—

(a) removed him from a list prepared by it of any of the kinds referred to in subsection (1)(a) to (d), or

(b) refused to include him in such a list.

(5) Any such application must be made before the end of the period of three months beginning with the date of the removal or of the Primary Care Trust’s refusal.

(6) If the FHSAA imposes a national disqualification on a person—

(a) no Primary Care Trust or Local Health Board may include him in a list of any of the kinds prepared by it from which he has been disqualified from inclusion, and

(b) if he is included in such a list, each Primary Care Trust and each Local Health Board in whose list he is included must remove him from it.

(7) The FHSAA may at the request of the person upon whom it has been imposed review a national disqualification, and on a review may confirm it or revoke it.

(8) Subject to subsection (9), the person may not request such a review before the end of the period of—

(a) two years beginning with the date on which the national disqualification was imposed, or

(b) one year beginning with the date of the FHSAA’s decision on the last such review.

(9) The Secretary of State may provide in regulations for subsection (8) to have effect in prescribed circumstances as if the reference there to “two years” or “one year” were a reference to a different period specified in the regulations.