The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015

Publication of earnings information E+W

21.—(1) The contractor must publish each year on its practice website [F1 or online practice profile] the information specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The information specified in this paragraph is—

(a) the mean net earnings in respect of the previous financial year of—

(i) every general medical practitioner who was a party to the agreement for a period of at least six months during that financial year, and

(ii) every general medical practitioner who was employed or engaged by the contractor to provide services under the agreement in the contractor's practice, whether on a full-time or a part-time basis, for a period of at least six months during that financial year; and

(b) the—

(i) total number of any general medical practitioners to whom the earnings information referred to in sub-paragraph (a) relates, and

(ii) (where applicable) the number of those practitioners who have been employed or engaged by the contractor to provide services under the agreement in the contractor's practice on a full-time or a part-time basis and for a period of at least six months during the financial year in respect of which that information relates.

(3) The information specified in sub-paragraph (2) must be—

(a) published by the contractor before the end of the financial year following the financial year to which that information relates; and

(b) made available by the contractor in hard copy form on request.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, “mean net earnings” are to be calculated by reference to the earnings of a general medical practitioner that, in the opinion of [F2 NHS England], are attributable to the performance or provision by the practitioner under the agreement of medical services to which Part 4 of the Act applies, after having disregarded any expenses properly incurred in the course of performing or providing those services.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 21(1) substituted (1.4.2020) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/226), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 7

F2 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1