[F1 PART 9A E+WVaccines and immunisations

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 9A inserted (1.4.2021) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/331), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 6

Vaccines and immunisations: nominated person E+W

66E.— (1) The contractor must nominate a person (a “V & I lead”) who is to have responsibility for—

(a) overseeing the provision of vaccine and immunisation services by the contractor,

(b) carrying out, on behalf of the contractor, any of the contractor’s functions under regulation 66A, and

(c) overseeing compliance with the requirements of regulations 66A to 66D.

(2) The contractor must ensure that the V & I lead—

(a) has regard to all guidance issued by [F2 NHS England] which is relevant to that role, and

(b) if they are not a health care professional, is directly supervised in that role by a healthcare professional.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1