National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) (Wales) Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”).

Regulations 2, 3 and 5 make a number of amendments which apply the provisions of the 1996 Regulations to NHS trusts, together with a number of other minor amendments.

Regulation 3(5) creates two new exemptions from the requirement that an Advisory Appointments Committee must be held to appoint a consultant. The first exemption applies to a person who has been in post as a consultant with the medical services of the army, navy or air force and is appointed to a consultant post in one of the bodies to whom the 1996 Regulations apply without moving location and without the duties involved in the post altering in any significant way. The second exemption applies to a consultant who retires but then returns to a very similar post in the same body, albeit that the terms of his or her employment may have altered.

Regulation 4 allows one of the advertisements for a consultant appointment to be in electronic form.

Regulation 5 sets out the exact requirements for the constitution of an Advisory Appointments Committee where two or more bodies to whom the 1996 Regulations apply act together to establish a joint Advisory Appointments Committee.