The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services Supplementary List) and (General Ophthalmic Services Amendment and Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2005

Amendment of regulation 6

24.—(1) Regulation 6 of the Ophthalmic Regulations (ophthalmic list)(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1), after “shall keep”, there shall be inserted “and publish”.

(3) In paragraph (3)—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (a) there shall be added—

“and in relation to each person—

(i) his professional registration number with—

(aa) suffixed to that number, the organisational code given by the Secretary of State to the Primary Care Trust, and

(bb) prefixed to that number, the initials OL,

(ii) in the case of an individual, his date of birth, where he consents, or where he does not consent, or in the case of a corporate optician, the date of that person’s first registration in the register, and

(iii) the date that his name was included in the ophthalmic list;”;

(b) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) except in the case of a mobile practice, the addresses of any places in the Primary Care Trust’s locality at which they have undertaken to provide general ophthalmic services, other than mobile services;”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (c) from “available at those addresses” to the end shall be deleted;

(d) in sub-paragraph (d)—

(i) after “or employee”, there shall be inserted “in assisting”, and

(ii) at the end, there shall be added “or in the provision of mobile services”; and

(e) at the end, there shall be added sub-paragraph (e)—

“(e) if the contractor has made arrangements with the Primary Care Trust to provide mobile services—

(i) that fact,

(ii) the addresses of any day or residential centres visited regularly, with particulars of the months in which visits are planned to take place and the planned interval between such visits, and

(iii) if that contractor is a mobile practice, that fact and the addresses to which correspondence in connection with such provision may be sent.”.

(1)

Relevant amendments are, in relation to England, in S.I. 2001/ 414, 3739 and 2002/2469.