The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Insertion of new paragraph 73A into Schedule 5 to the PMS Agreements Regulations

28.  In schedule 5 to the PMS Agreements Regulations (other contractual terms), after paragraph 73 (provision of information), insert—

“Publication of earnings information

73A.— (1) The contractor must publish each year on its practice website (if it has one) the information specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The information specified in this sub-paragraph is—

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

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

(ii) any general medical practitioners who were employed or engaged by the contractor to provide services under the contract in the contractor’s practice, whether on a full-time or 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 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 paragraph, “mean net earnings” are to be calculated by reference to the earnings of a general medical practitioner that, in the opinion of the Board, are attributable to the performance or provision by the practitioner under the agreement of medical services to which Part 4 of the 2006 Act applies, after having disregarded any expenses properly incurred in the course of performing or providing those services.”.