The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013

The Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 U.K.

75.—(1) The Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “childhood vaccinations and immunisations” insert—

““clinical commissioning group” means a body established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006;”,

(b) in the definition of “medical card”, for “a Primary Care Trust,” substitute “ the National Health Service Commissioning Board, a ”.

(c) omit the definition of “Primary Care Trust”, and

(d) omit the definition of “Strategic Health Authority”.

(3) In regulation 4 (conditions relating solely to medical practitioners)—

(a) in paragraph (2)(b)(ii), omit “a Primary Care Trust,”, and

(b) in paragraph (3)(b)(ii), omit “a Primary Care Trust,”.

(4) In Schedule 5 (other contractual terms)—

(a) in paragraph 22(1)(b) (removals from the list of patients registered elsewhere), for “a Primary Care Trust,” substitute “ the National Health Service Commissioning Board, ”, and

(b) in paragraph 89(2) (co-operation with investigations), in the definition of “NHS body”—

(i) for “a Primary Care Trust,” substitute “ a clinical commissioning group, ”, and

(ii) for “a Strategic Health Authority,” substitute “ the National Health Service Commissioning Board, ”.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.R. 2004/140, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.