The National Health Service (Fund-holding Amendment Regulations 1998 Practices)

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

7.  In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (conditions for obtaining recognition), after paragraph 5 add—

“6.   In the case of members of a practice who provide or perform personal medical services under a pilot scheme—

(a) none of them is employed by another person in accordance with the requirements of section 14(1)(1) of the 1990 Act; and

(b) in connection with the pilot scheme each member of the practice has a list of patients and the members together do not have a single list of patients; and

(c) the pilot scheme does not provide for persons to receive under the pilot scheme any of the goods or services specified, in the case of standard fund-holding practices in Part I, and in the case of community fund-holding practices in Part II, of the list approved from time to time by the Secretary of State for the purposes of regulation 20.”.

(1)

1990 c. 19, as amended by paragraph 73 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and (from 1st April 1998) by paragraph 65(3) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).