The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Amendment of Schedule 15

89.  In the table in Schedule 15 (definitions)—

(a) in column 2 of the entry for “locum practitioner”—

(i) at the end of paragraph (2)(g), omit “or”;

(ii) after paragraph (2)(h), add—

“; or

(i) services pursuant to an NHS standard contract or an NHS standard sub-contract.”;

(b) in column 2 of the entry for “practice staff”, substitute—

“means a person who is not a registered medical practitioner, a GP registrar or a non-GP provider and who is employed by a GMS practice, a PMS practice, an APMS contractor or an OOH Provider to assist in the provision of any of the following—

(a)

OOH services or services that practice or provider provides pursuant to a GMS contract, PMS agreement or an APMS contract;

(b)

services pursuant to an NHS standard contract;

(c)

services pursuant to an NHS standard sub-contract;

(d)

clinical health care services for the NHS commissioned by an employing authority that is not a GMS practice, a PMS practice, an APMS contractor, an OOH provider or an Independent Provider;”;

(c) at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order insert—

““NHS standard contract”	means the terms and conditions from time to time drafted by the National Health Service Commissioning Board pursuant to regulation 17 of the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standard Rules) Regulations 2012(1)
“NHS standard sub-contract”	means the terms and conditions from time to time drafted by the National Health Service Commissioning Board pursuant to regulation 17 of the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standard Rules) Regulations 2012(2)
“shared parental leave”	the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014”

(1)

S.I. 2012/2996.

(2)

S.I. 2012/2996.