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The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015
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PART 13 E+WFunctions of a Local Medical Committee
Functions of a Local Medical CommitteeE+W
86.—(1) The functions of a Local Medical Committee which are prescribed for the purposes of section 97(8) of the Act M1 (Local Medical Committees) are—
(a)considering a complaint made to it by a medical practitioner against another medical practitioner specified in paragraph (2) who is providing services under a contract in the relevant area involving any question relating to the efficiency of those services;
(b)reporting the outcome of the consideration of any such complaint to the Board where that consideration gives rise to concerns relating to the efficiency of the services provided under a contract;
(c)making arrangements for the medical examination of a medical practitioner specified in paragraph (2), where the contractor or the Board is concerned that the medical practitioner is incapable of adequately providing services under the contract and the contractor or the Board requests that examination with the agreement of the medical practitioner concerned; and
(d)considering the report of any medical examination arranged in accordance with sub-paragraph (c) and reporting in writing to that medical practitioner, the contractor and the Board about the capability of the medical practitioner to adequately provide services under the contract.
(2) The medical practitioner referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and (c) is a medical practitioner who is—
(a)a contractor;
(b)one of two or more persons practising in partnership which holds a contract; or
(c)both a legal and beneficial shareholder in a company limited by shares which holds a contract.
(3) In this regulation “the relevant area” means the area for which the Local Medical Committee is formed.
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M12006 c.41. Section 97 was amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 4 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7).
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