Part I Services and Administration

Local administration

15F1Duty of Health Authority in relation to family health services.

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It is the duty F2of each Primary Care Trust and of F3each Health Authority, in accordance with regulations—

F4a

to administer the arrangements made in pursuance of this Act for the provision of general medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services and pharmaceutical services for their F5area;

C1b

to perform such F6management and other functions relating to those services as may be prescribed.

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F81ZA

It is the duty of F9each Strategic Health Authority and each Health Authority, in accordance with regulations, to perform such functions in relation to section 28C arrangements as may be prescribed.

1ZB

Regulations under subsection (1ZA) may, in particular—

a

prescribe functions in relation to training;

b

provide for appeals to the Secretary of State or a prescribed body in relation to functions prescribed by the regulations.

F101ZC

It is the duty of each Primary Care Trust—

a

in making LPS arrangements to establish and operate, in accordance with directions given by the Secretary of State under section 17 F11 by virtue of section 36(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2001, procedures for dealing with complaints about the provision of local pharmaceutical services in accordance with those arrangements, and

b

in accordance with regulations, to perform such other functions in relation to those arrangements as may be prescribed.

1ZD

Regulations under subsection (1ZC)(b) may, in particular, prescribe functions in relation to training.

F121A

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F13F141B

In relation to a Part II medical practitioner—

a

whose name is included in the medical list of only one F15Primary Care Trust or Health Authority, and

b

who practises on his own or in partnership with others all of whom are Part II medical practitioners whose names are included only in F16the medical list of that Trust or Authority,

any reference in this Act or the M1National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 to the relevant F15Primary Care Trust or Health Authority is to be construed as a reference to F17that Trust or Authority .

1BA

In relation to a medical practitioner who is not within subsection (1B), any reference in this Act or the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 to the relevant F18Primary Care Trust or Health Authority is to be construed as a reference to F19the Trust or Authority in whose area most of the practice patients live.

F201C

In relation to the operation of a fund-holding practice by medical practitioners the relevant Health Authority in respect of one or more of whom would (apart from this subsection) be different from that in respect of the other or others, the relevant Health Authority for each of them shall be determined for the purposes of the application of any provision relating to fund-holding practices as if they were all practising in a single partnership.

F211D

In this section—

  • ”Part II medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner who provides general medical services under Part II and does not perform personal medical services under section 28C arrangements; and

  • ”practice patient” means—

    1. a

      in relation to a medical practitioner who practises otherwise than in partnership, an individual who is on that practitioner’s list of patients (or, if that practitioner and one or more other medical practitioners together have a single list of patients in connection with section 28C arrangements, an individual who is on that single list);

    2. b

      in relation to a medical practitioner who is one of two or more practitioners who practise in partnership with each other, an individual who is on the list of patients of any of those practitioners (or, if any of those practitioners together have a single list of patients in connection with section 28C arrangements, an individual who is on that single list).

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