The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Primary Medical Services Performers

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of any order made by the Scottish Ministers under section 7 of the 2004 Act (ancillary provisions) and subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a health care professional who is a medical practitioner may not perform any primary medical service which a Health Board is, under section 2C(1) of the Act(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 Health Board.

(2) A medical practitioner, who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals) or 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 Health 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 Health Board to have the GP Registrar’s name included in a primary medical services performers list maintained by that Health Board, may, despite not being included in that list, perform any primary medical service which that Health Board is, under section 2C(1) of the Act, 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.

(1)

1978 c. 29. Section 2C was inserted by the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act (asp 1), section 1(2).