The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998

Amendments connected with the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Part II Practitioners) Regulations 1998

Further amendments of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations

6.—(1) Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 19(1) (obligation to give treatment personally)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (3), after “on the obstetric list” in the second place where those words appear, insert “or is a pilot doctor who is named in a pilot scheme agreement as responsible for the performance of maternity medical services under the pilot scheme”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (5), after “child health surveillance list”, insert “or is a pilot doctor who is named in a pilot scheme agreement as responsible for the performance of child health surveillance services under the pilot scheme”; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (6), after “minor surgery list”, insert “or is a pilot doctor who is named in a pilot scheme agreement as responsible for the performance of minor surgery services under the pilot scheme”.

(3) In paragraph 20(2) (responsibility for acts and omissions of deputies)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1), after “sub-paragraph (2)” insert “or for which the doctor is not responsible, under sub-paragraph (3)”; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (2), insert—

“(3) Where, in connection with arrangements under a pilot scheme whereby, outside normal hours, pilot doctors and doctors providing general medical services co-operate in such a way that one doctor will cover for another to secure the performance of personal medical services or, as the case may be, the provision of general medical services for their patients, a pilot doctor acts as a deputy to a doctor whose name is included in the medical list, that doctor is not responsible for the acts or omissions of the pilot doctor(3).”.

(4) In paragraph 22(4) (organisations providing deputy doctors), for paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1), substitute—

“(a) consists only of—

(i) doctors whose names are included in the list of a Health Authority and who arrange to act as deputies to each other, or

(ii) pilot doctors and doctors whose names are included in the list of a Health Authority who co-operate in such a way that one doctor will cover for another to secure the performance of personal medical services or, as the case may be, the provision of general medical services for their patients; and.”

(5) In paragraph 26 (issue of documents), after “the medical list”, insert “, or a pilot doctor acting as a deputy to a doctor whose name is included in the medical list in connection with arrangements under a pilot scheme whereby, outside normal hours, pilot doctors and doctors providing general medical services co-operate in such a way that one doctor will cover for another to secure the performance of personal medical services or, as the case may be, the provision of general medical services for their patients”.

(1)

Paragraph 19 was amended by S.I. 1996/702, regulation 5(6).

(2)

Paragraph 20 was amended by S.I. 1994/633 and 1997/730.

(3)

See the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Part II Practitioners) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998), regulation 2(2)(b) for provision enabling doctors providing general medical services to participate in such arrangements.

(4)

Paragraph 22 was substituted by S.I. 1997/730, regulation 3(4).