The Health and Personal Social Services (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Primary Medical Services Performers

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), a health care professional who is a medical practitioner may not perform any primary medical service which a Board is, under Article 56 of the Order(1), under a duty to provide or secure the provision of unless that medical practitioner is included in a primary medical services performers list maintained by that Board.

(2) A medical practitioner who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals) or section 21 (provisional registration) of the Medical Act 1983 may perform primary medical services despite not being included in the primary medical services performers list of any Board, where those services are performed in the course of the practitioner’s employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice.

(3) A GP Registrar, who has applied in accordance with these Regulations to a Board to have the GP Registrar’s name included in a primary medical services performers list maintained by that Board, may, despite not being included in that list, perform any primary medical service which that Board is, under Article 56 of the Order, under a duty to provide or secure the provision of, until the first of the following events arises –

(a) the Board notifies the GP Registrar of the Board’s decision on that application;

(b) the end of a period of 2 months, starting with the date on which the GP Registrar’s vocational training scheme begins.

(4) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the provision of any primary medical service by a medical practitioner not included in a list specified in paragraph (1) at any time prior to 1st October 2004.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I, 14). Article 56 was inserted by Article 3 of the 2004 Order Back [1]