CCG membership requirement2

1

For the purposes of section 14A(3) and (4) of the 2006 Act6 (meaning of “provider of primary medical services”) the prescribed description of primary medical services is: essential primary medical services to registered patients during core hours.

2

In paragraph (1)—

  • “core hours” means—

    1. a

      the period beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 6.30 p.m. on any day from Monday to Friday except Good Friday, Christmas Day or any day specified or proclaimed as a bank holiday in England and Wales pursuant to section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 19717, or

    2. b

      (in the case of primary medical services arrangements) the period defined as core hours in those arrangements;

  • “essential primary medical services” means the services described in regulation 15(3), (5), (6) and (8) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 20048 (essential services);

  • “registered patient” means—

    1. a

      a person who is recorded by the Board as being on the provider’s list of patients, or

    2. b

      a person whom the provider has accepted for inclusion on its list of patients (whether or not notification of that acceptance has been received by the Board) and who has not been the subject of a notification by the Board to the provider as having ceased to be on that list.

3

In paragraph (b) of the definition of “core hours” in paragraph (2), “primary medical services arrangements” means—

a

until the date on which section 34 of the Health and Social Care Act 20129 (which abolishes Primary Care Trusts) comes into force, arrangements made by a Primary Care Trust under section 83(2)(b) of the 2006 Act (primary medical services),

b

on and after that date, arrangements previously made under section 83(2)(b) of the 2006 Act which continue to have effect, and arrangements made by the Board under section 83(2) of the 2006 Act.

4

In the definition of “registered patient” in paragraph (2), until the date on which section 34 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 comes into force, references to “the Board” are to be construed as references to “a Primary Care Trust”.