The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Entitlement to a contract as one of two or more individuals practising in partnership

5.  Subject to article 6, a Primary Care Trust must, if a person so wishes, enter into a general medical services contract with him as one of two or more individuals practising in partnership if—

(a) on 31st March 2004, or on the date on which the contract is to be signed, if earlier, he is—

(i) included in the medical list of the Primary Care Trust by virtue of regulation 4(1)(a) of the 1992 Regulations, or

(ii) a medical practitioner who has been approved by the Primary Care Trust under regulation 18A or 18B of the 1992 Regulations but whose name has not yet been entered on the medical list of that Primary Care Trust in accordance with regulation 18F(1) of those Regulations(1);

(b) except in the case of a person who falls within paragraph (a)(ii), he is, on the date on which the contract is to be signed, providing general medical services under section 29 of the 1977 Act or services under a default contract —

(i) in partnership with one or more other persons who meet the requirements in paragraph (a)(i), or

(ii) as an individual medical practitioner with whom another medical practitioner has been approved to be in partnership under regulation 18A or 18B of the 1992 Regulations; and

(c) he wishes to enter into a contract as an individual practising in partnership with one or more medical practitioners who meet the requirements in paragraph (a)(i) and with whom he was on 31st March 2004, or is on the date on which the contract is to be signed, if earlier, practising in partnership or whose nomination, in relation to the partnership, has been approved by the Primary Care Trust under regulations 18A or 18B of the 1992 Regulations.

(1)

Regulation 18F(1) was substituted by S.I. 1998/2838 and amended by S.I. 2001/3742 and 2002/554 and 2469.