The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Interpretation

1.  In this Schedule—

“Board and advisory work” means—

(a)

work undertaken as a member of the Board of an employing authority which is not a GMS practice, a Section 17C Agreement provider, an HBPMS contractor or an OOH provider; or

(b)

advisory work commissioned by and undertaken on behalf of such an authority, if it is connected to the authority’s role in performing, or securing the delivery of, primary medical services or associated management activities or similar duties;

(c)

but which is not in itself the performance of primary medical services, and payment for which is made by that authority directly to the person carrying out that work;

“collaborative services” means primary medical services provided by a GP performer, a GMS practice, a Section 17C Agreement provider, an HBPMS contractor or an OOH provider under or as a result of an arrangement between—

(a)

the scheme manager or a Health Board; and

(b)

a local authority,

under section 15(2) (supply of goods and services to local authorities, etc.) of the 1978 Act, under which the scheme manager or the Health Board is responsible for providing services for purposes related to the provision of health care;

“commissioned services” means services provided under a contract between—

(a)

a GP performer, a GMS practice, a Section 17C Agreement provider, an HBPMS contractor or an OOH provider; and

(b)

either—

(i)

a Special Health Board, which relates to the provision of health care; or

(ii)

the scheme manager or a Health Board under section 16(1)(l) of the 1978 Act, which is for the purposes of the health service.