The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services and Pharmaceutical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make amendments to certain Regulations relating to primary medical services.

Part 2 amends the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004 (“the GMS Contracts Regulations”). In particular, it:

(a) makes amendments to reflect changes to the arrangements for independent prescribing by pharmacists and nurses. There is to be a new category of prescriber known as a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber, and new arrangements for independent prescribing by nurses – which require consequential amendments to the titles of nurses who have trained to prescribe;

(b) makes provision in respect of a new category of post graduate medical training to provide that doctors undergoing such a programme may perform medical services even though they are not on a PCT’s Performers List and have not provided two clinical references.

Part 3 makes amendments to the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2004 (“the PMS Agreements Regulations”) which mirror those made in the GMS Contracts Regulations.

Part 4 makes certain amendments to the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 (“the Pharmaceutical Regulations”) to clarify the definition of “PMS contractor” and to make further provision in respect of fees and charges payable to a dispensing doctor.