The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015

Conditions for employment and engagement: medical practitioners

37.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a contractor may not employ or engage a medical practitioner (other than an exempt medical practitioner within the meaning of regulation 33(3)) unless—

(a) the practitioner has provided the contractor with documentary evidence that the practitioner is entered in the medical performers list; and

(b) the contractor has checked that the practitioner meets the requirements of regulation 36.

(2) Where—

(a) the employment or engagement of a medical practitioner is urgently needed; and

(b) it is not possible for the contractor to check the matters referred to in regulation 36 in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) before employing or engaging the practitioner,

the contractor may employ or engage the practitioner on a temporary basis for a single period of up to seven days while such checks are undertaken.

(3) Where the prospective employee is a GP Specialty Registrar, the requirements in paragraph (1) apply with modifications so that—

(a) the GP Specialty Registrar is treated as having provided documentary evidence of the GP Specialty Registrar’s application to the Board for inclusion in the medical performers list; and

(b) confirmation that the GP Specialty Registrar’s name appears on that list is not required until the end of the first two months of the GP Specialty Registrar’s training period.