The National Health Service (Ophthalmic Services) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Complaints made against and concerns notified about ophthalmic medical practitioners

21.—(1) Where a contractor who, being an ophthalmic medical practitioner, also performs primary medical services under a GMS contract for any person for whom the contractor provides primary ophthalmic services, the complaints procedure or procedure for notifying concerns established and operated in accordance with the terms of that GMS contract applies in relation to any matter reasonably connected with the contractor’s provision of primary ophthalmic services as it applies as respects the provision of services under the GMS contract.

(2) Any requirement as to co-operation with investigations of complaints or concerns by other bodies imposed on a GMS contractor under the terms of the contractor’s contract which gives effect to paragraph 102 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023(1) also applies in relation to complaints or concerns about the matters referred to in sub-paragraph (1).

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, “GMS contract” means a general medical services contract under section 42 of the Act (general medical services contracts: introductory) and “GMS contractor” must be interpreted accordingly.

(1)

S.I. 2023/953 (W. 155).