The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1373

MEDICAL PROFESSION

The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1999

Made

13th May 1999

Laid before Parliament

14th May 1999

Coming into force

7th June 1999

The Secretary of State, being designated for the purposes of, and in exercise of the powers conferred by, section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and in exercise of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 7th June 1999.

Amendment of the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995

2.—(1) The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995(2) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In article 2(1)(b) (interpretation)(3), at the end, insert “ , and by Commission Directive 98/21/EC of 8th April 1998(4), and by Commission Directive 98/63/EC of 3rd September 1998(5)”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (which lists medical specialties in which qualifications are awarded in the United Kingdom), in Part I–

(a) immediately under the heading “Five years”, add the entry “ Accident and emergency medicine”;

(b) after the entry for “child and adolescent psychiatry”, add the entry “ clinical neurophysiology”; and

(c) for the entries specified in column 1 below(6), substitute in the appropriate alphabetical position under the relevant minimum training period the corresponding entry in column 2 below–

“Column 1	Column 2
Existing entry	New entry
General medicine* (also known as general (internal) medicine)	General (internal) medicine* (formerly known as general medicine)
Neurological surgery* (also known as neurosurgery)	Neurosurgery* (formerly known as neurological surgery)
Orthopaedic surgery* (also known as trauma and orthopaedic surgery)	Trauma and orthopaedic surgery* (formerly known as orthopaedic surgery)
Thoracic surgery (also known as cardio-thoracic surgery)	Cardio-thoracic surgery (formerly known as thoracic surgery)
Cardio-vascular disease (also known as cardiology)	Cardiology (formerly known as cardio-vascular disease)
Communicable diseases (also known as infectious diseases)	Infectious diseases (formerly known as communicable diseases)
Community medicine (also known as public health medicine)	Public health medicine (formerly known as community medicine)
Diagnostic radiology (also known as clinical radiology and formerly known as radiology)	Clinical radiology (formerly known as diagnostic radiology, and as radiology)
Geriatrics (also known as geriatric medicine)	Geriatric medicine (formerly known as geriatrics)
Medical microbiology (also known as medical microbiology and virology)	Medical microbiology and virology (formerly known as medical microbiology)
Morbid anatomy and histopathology* (also known as histopathology)	Histopathology* (formerly known as morbid anatomy and histopathology)
Psychiatry* (also known as general psychiatry or general adult psychiatry and formerly known as mental illness)	General psychiatry* (formerly known as psychiatry, as general adult psychiatry, and as mental illness)
Radiotherapy (also known as clinical oncology)	Clinical oncology (formerly known as radiotherapy)
Renal disease (also known as renal medicine and formerly known as nephrology)	Renal medicine (formerly known as renal disease, and as nephrology)
Venereology (also known as genito-urinary medicine)	Genito-urinary medicine (formerly known as venereology)”

(4) In Part II of Schedule 2–

(a) omit “Accident and emergency medicine” and “Clinical neurophysiology ”; and

(b) in the appropriate alphabetical positions, insert “Allergy” and “ Intensive care medicine”.

Frank Dobson

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,

Department of Health

13th May 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995 (“the 1995 Order”), which implemented European obligations contained principally in Council Directive 93/16/EEC (OJ No. L165, 7.7.93, p. 1) relating to the training of specialist doctors and mutual recognition of their qualifications (“the Directive”). The need for changes to the 1995 Order arises from amendments to the Directive made by Commission Directives 98/21/EC (OJ No. L119, 22.4.98, p. 15) and 98/63/EC (OJ No. L253, 15.9.98, p. 24).

Schedule 2 to the 1995 Order is amended to reflect a change in the designation for the purposes of the Directive of certain medical specialties in which qualifications are awarded in the UK. The amendments also reflect the introduction in the Directive of minimum training periods and mutual recognition requirements for specialist qualifications in Accident and emergency medicine and Clinical neurophysiology. In addition, two new specialities (Allergy and Intensive care medicine) are added to the list of “Other Specialities”.

(1)

1972 c. 68. See S.I. 1995/3207, which designates the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to measures relating to access to, training for, the pursuit of, and the award of qualifications in (amongst other things) medicine and its specialties.

(2)

S.I. 1995/3208, amended by S.I. 1997/2928.

(3)

Article 2(1)(b) was previously amended by S.I. 1997/2928.

(4)

OJ No. L119, 22.4.98, p. 15.

(5)

OJ No. L253, 15.9.98, p. 24.

(6)

The entries in column 1 for general medicine, diagnostic radiology, geriatrics, psychiatry and renal disease were amended by S.I. 1997/2928, regulation 2(6)(a).