The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Medical performers list E+W

22.—(1) Subject to paragraphs [F1 (2) to (3)] a medical practitioner may not perform any primary medical service, unless that medial practitioner is a general medical practitioner and his or her name is included in a medical performers list.

(2) A medical practitioner who is provisionally registered under section 15, 15A or 21 of the Medical Act M1 , may perform primary medical service when the medical practitioner’s name is not included in a medical performers list, but only whilst acting in the course of employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice (within the meaning of section 11(4) of that Act M2 ).

[F2 (2A) A medical practitioner who falls within paragraph (2B) may perform primary medical services in the area of a Local Health Board, but only in so far as the performance of those services constitutes part of a programme of post-registration supervised clinical practice approved by [F3 the General Medical Council] (“a post-registration programme”).

(2B) A medical practitioner falls within this paragraph if he or she—

(a) is not a GP Registrar;

(b) is undertaking a post-registration programme;

(c) has notified the Local Health Board that he or she will be undertaking part or all of a post-registration programme in its area at least 24 hours before commencing any part of that programme taking place in the Local Health Board’s area; and

(d) has, with that notification, provided the Local Health Board with evidence sufficient for it to satisfy itself that he or she is undergoing a post-registration programme.]

(3) A GP Registrar, who has applied in accordance with these Regulations to a Local Health Board for inclusion in its medical performers list may perform primary medical services, despite not being included in that performers list, until the first of the following events arises—

(a) the Local Health Board notifies the GP Registrar of its decision on that application; or

(b) the end of a period of [F4 3 months], starting with the date on which the GP Registrar’s vocational training scheme begins.

(4) In respect of any medical practitioner whose name is included in a medical performers list, the performers list shall include —

(a) the medical practitioner’s full name;

(b) the medical practitioner’s professional registration number with, suffixed to it, the organisational code given by the National Assembly for Wales to the Local Health Board;

(c) F5 ... the date of the medical practitioner’s first registration in both registers;

(d) if the medical practitioner is a contractor, that the medical practitioner is a contractor;

(e) if the medical practitioner is a GP Registrar, that the medical practitioner is a GP Registrar;

(f) if the medical practitioner is an armed forces GP, that the medical practitioner is an armed forces GP; and

(g) the date that the medical practitioner’s name was included in the medical performers list or, if the medical practitioner was included in any medical, supplementary or services list of a Local Health Board, first included in such a list.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 22(1) substituted (1.7.2008) by The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services) and (Performers Lists) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1425), regs. 1(2), 7(a)

F2 Reg. 22(2A)(2B) inserted (1.7.2008) by The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services) and (Performers Lists) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1425), regs. 1(2), 7(b)

F3 Words in reg. 22(2A) substituted (1.4.2010) by The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/234), art. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 8(3); S.I. 2010/478, art. 2(c)

F4 Words in reg. 22(3)(b) substituted (1.7.2008) by The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services) and (Performers Lists) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1425), regs. 1(2), 7(c)

F5 Words in reg. 22(4)(c) deleted (1.4.2006) by virtue of The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/945), regs. 1(1), 10 (with Sch.)

Marginal Citations

M1 Relevant amendments to sections 15 and 21 are S.I. 1996/1591 and s. 41(10) of and paragraph 61(1) and (4) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Act.

M2 Relevant amendments are s. 35(1) and (4) of the 1997 Act.