The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1998

GMS local development schemes

2.—(1) In regulation 35 of the 1995 Regulations (payments), at the beginning of paragraph (1), insert “Subject to regulation 35B,”.

(2) After regulation 35A((1) insert–

“GMS local development schemes

35B.— (1) A Board may as respects any financial year establish one or more GMS local development schemes if–

(a) the Secretary of State has for the purposes of any such scheme as it may establish designated the Board as the determining authority for the remuneration of doctors whose names are included in its medical list; and

(b) such remuneration is of a description designated by the Secretary of State in relation to that financial year for the purposes of section 85(1AA)(b) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978((2)

(2) Schedule 8A defines a GMS local development scheme, and makes further provision in connection with such schemes.

(3) In respect of each financial year the Board shall make payments in accordance with its determination under the said section 85(1AA)(b) to those doctors whose names are included in its medical list who qualify by virtue of the determination for such payments.

(4) As soon as reasonably possible after the end of each financial year, the Board shall publish the following information about the GMS local development schemes established in its area as respects that financial year:–

(a) the aggregate amount of all the payments under paragraph (3) made or due to doctors in respect of that financial year for all the Board’s GMS local development schemes taken together;

(b) the number of doctors to whom such payments have been made; and

(c) a description of the aspects of general medical services which were the subject of the Board’s GMS local development schemes in that financial year.”.

(3) In regulation 36 of the 1995 Regulations (claims and overpayments), in paragraph (1), at the end insert “or (as the case may be) with the terms of a GMS local development scheme”.

(4) After Schedule 8 to the 1995 Regulations, insert Schedule 8A as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

Regulation 35A was inserted by S.I. 1995/3199.

(2)

Subsection (1AA) of section 85 was inserted by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 37(1).