The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services Supplementary List) and (General Ophthalmic Services Amendment and Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2005

Supplementary list

3.—(1) A Primary Care Trust shall prepare and publish a supplementary list of all ophthalmic medical practitioners or opticians approved by the Primary Care Trust for the purposes of assisting in the provision of general ophthalmic services.

(2) The supplementary list shall be divided into two parts, of which the first part shall relate to ophthalmic medical practitioners and the second part to opticians.

(3) Subject to regulation 21, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician may not assist in the provision of general ophthalmic services, unless his name is included in an ophthalmic list or a supplementary list.

(4) In respect of any ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician, whose name is included in the supplementary list, the list shall include—

(a) his full name;

(b) his professional registration number with,

(i) suffixed to that number, the organisational code given by the Secretary of State to the Primary Care Trust, and

(ii) prefixed to that number, the initials SOL;

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

(d) the date that his name was included in the supplementary list.

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