The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Performance of personal medical services by medical practitioners

7.—(1) A Health Board shall not make an agreement under which a registered medical practitioner will perform personal medical services unless the Health Board would, if the registered medical practitioner had intended to provide general medical services instead, be able to enter into arrangements with that practitioner under section 19(1) of the 1978 Act.

(2) No medical practitioner shall perform personal medical services where that medical practitioner–

(a) is disqualified by direction of the Tribunal;

(b) is suspended by direction of the Tribunal;

(c) is disqualified or suspended under provisions, corresponding to sections 29(3), 32A(2) or 32B(1) of the 1978 Act, in force in England and Wales or Northern Ireland;

(d) is no longer a registered medical practitioner;

(e) is the subject of a direction given by the Professional Conduct Committee under section 36 of the Medical Act 1983 (erasure of name from the register or suspension of registration)(1) or of an order made by that Committee under section 38(1) of that Act (immediate suspension);

(f) has been convicted in the United Kingdom of murder; or

(g) has been convicted in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of at least six months.

(3) Where, a medical practitioner who falls within paragraph (2) performs personal medical services, the agreement under which those services are provided shall terminate forthwith.

(4) Schedule 3 applies to the performance of personal medical services by a medical practitioner under an agreement.

(1)

1983 c. 54.