General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Regulation 26(7) and (12)

Part VII Criteria for inclusion and retention in the child health surveillance list

1.  A doctor will have his name included in the child health surveillance list if he fulfils one or more of the following criteria which relate to the period of 5 years immediately preceding application:

(a) he has held a full-time 6 month recognised post or part-time equivalent, in hospital paediatrics working mainly, that is to say more than 50% of the time, in medical or community paediatrics; or

(b) he has held a full-time recognised post or part-time equivalent as a Clinical Medical Officer in community health working mainly, that is to say, more than 50% of the time, in child community health; or

(c) he has successfully completed a Child Health Surveillance training programme recognised jointly by the Regional Advisers in General Practice and Paediatrics. A doctor who has not had regular clinical paediatric experience in the previous 5 years will require recognised practical training; or

(d) he has obtained membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners after 1992 by examination.

2.  In order to ensure continued inclusion in the child health surveillance list at each quinquennial review, a doctor shall confirm to the Board his attendance at an update course, approved by the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education(1), within the last 5 years.

(1)

The Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education was appointed by the Department of Health and Social Services under powers conferred by section 1(3) of the Ministries of Northern Ireland Act (Northern Ireland) 1921 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974