PART IIPILOT SCHEMES FOR PRIMARY CARE

Preparation and making of pilot schemes

Provision of personal medical services under a pilot scheme4

1

This Article applies to any pilot scheme under which personal medical services are provided.

2

An agreement which constitutes, or is one of the agreements which together constitute, a pilot scheme may be made by a board only with one or more of the following—

a

an HSS trust;

b

a suitably experienced medical practitioner;

c

an HSS employee or a pilot scheme employee;

d

a qualifying body;

e

an individual who is providing personal medical services under that or another pilot scheme.

3

In this Article—

  • “HSS employee” means an individual who, in connection with the provision of health services, is employed by—

    1. a

      an HSS trust;

    2. b

      a medical practitioner whose name is included in a medical list; or

    3. c

      a medical practitioner who is providing personal medical services in accordance with a pilot scheme;

  • “pilot scheme employee” means an individual who, in connection with the provision of personal medical services in accordance with a pilot scheme, is employed by an individual providing those services;

  • “qualifying body” means a company which is limited by shares all of which are legally and beneficially owned by persons falling within sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (e) of paragraph (2).

4

For the purposes of this Article, a medical practitioner is suitably experienced if he is suitably experienced for the purposes of Article 12 of this Order or Article 8 of the [1978 NI 26.] Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.