PART IIAMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL UPON THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRIMARY CARE) ACT 1997

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations8

In Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations (conditions for continuing recognition), after paragraph 14 add—

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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) 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.