The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services) (Services List) and the (General Medical Services Supplementary List) and (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2003

Services list

3.—(1) A Primary Care Trust shall prepare and publish a services list of all doctors who may perform personal medical services in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) and regulation 21, a doctor may not perform personal medical services, unless—

(a) in the case of a list-holding performer or a pilot scheme provider, his name is included in a services list; or

(b) in any other case, his name is included in a services list, medical list or a supplementary list.

(3) A doctor who is provisionally registered under section 15 or 21 of the Medical Act(1), may perform personal medical services when his name is not included in a services list, medical list or a supplementary list, but only whilst acting in the course of his employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice (within the meaning of section 11(4) of that Act(2)).

(4) In respect of any doctor whose name is included in a services list, the list shall include—

(a) the doctor’s full name;

(b) his professional registration number with, suffixed to it, the organisational code given by the Secretary of State to the Primary Care Trust;

(c) his date of birth, where he consents, or if not, his date of first registration in the register of medical practitioners;

(d) whether he is a pilot scheme provider;

(e) whether he is a list-holding performer;

(f) whether he is a General Practice Registrar; and

(g) the date that his name was included in the services list.

(5) The services list shall be available for public inspection.

(1)

Relevant amendments to sections 15 and 21 are S.I. 1996/1591 and s. 41(10) of and paragraph 61(1) and (4) to the 1997 Act.

(2)

Relevant amendments are s. 35(1) and (4) of the 1997 Act.