17.—(1) A contract must contain a term which has the effect of requiring the contractor to be a member of a GP Collaborative.
(2) A contractor must—
(a)appoint at least 1 health care professional with authority to act on the contractor’s behalf in the dealings between the contractor and the GP Collaborative to which the contractor belongs, and
(b)attend at least 4 meetings of the GP Collaborative to which the contractor belongs in each financial year (unless agreed otherwise in writing by the Local Health Board), or appoint a senior practice clinician, or where appropriate a senior administrator, employed by the practice to attend those meetings and to act on the contractor’s behalf in those meetings.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 17 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(2)