The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Determination of a Primary Care Trust or the Secretary of State made before the relevant date (regulations 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Service Committees Regulations)

97.—(1) Where, before the relevant date, a Primary Care Trust (or where relevant, the Secretary of State) has determined pursuant to regulation 8(5)(a) and 9(3) or regulation 11 (as the case may be) that an amount should be recovered from the doctor, insofar as any of that amount has not been recovered before the relevant date, it shall continue to be recoverable by the Primary Care Trust that was the appropriate Primary Care Trust for the purposes of the Service Committees Regulations in respect of that matter, and it shall be treated as a debt owed by that doctor to that Trust.

(2) Where a contracting PCT has record of, or receives notification of, an adverse determination made before the relevant date pursuant to regulation 8, 9, 10 or 11 in respect of a doctor (where, in the case of a determination under regulation 8, such a determination was not overturned on appeal), paragraph (3) shall apply without prejudice to any other rights the contracting PCT may have to take action against the relevant contractor pursuant to any term of the general medical services contract or default contract.

(3) Where this paragraph applies, the contracting PCT—

(a) may take into account that adverse determination in relation to a relevant contractor if it is considering, pursuant to a term of the general medical services contract that gives effect to paragraph 115(7) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, or an equivalent term in the default contract, whether the cumulative effect of breaches under that contract is such that to allow the contract to continue would be prejudicial to the efficiency of the services provided under that contract; but

(b) shall not, pursuant to sub-paragraph (a), take into account any adverse determination that was made that occurred more than 6 years prior to the date upon which the contracting PCT is considering terminating the general medical services contract or the default contract (as the case may be).

(4) Where a Performers List PCT has record of, or receives notification of, an adverse determination pursuant to regulation 8, 9, 10 or 11 made before the relevant date in respect of a doctor (where, in the case of a determination under regulation 8, such a determination was not overturned on appeal) it may take that determination into account in determining what (if any) action it should take in respect of that doctor pursuant to its powers under the Performers Lists Regulations.