The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Medical performers performers list

22.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) a medical practitioner may not perform any primary medical service, unless that medial practitioner is a general medical practitioner and his or her name is included in a medical performers list.

(2) A medical practitioner who is provisionally registered under section 15, 15A or 21 of the Medical Act(1), may perform primary medical service when the medical practitioner’s name is not included in a medical performers performers list, but only whilst acting in the course of employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice (within the meaning of section 11(4) of that Act(2)).

(3) A GP Registrar, who has applied in accordance with these Regulations to a Local Health Board for inclusion in its medical performers list may perform primary medical services, despite not being included in that performers list, until the first of the following events arises—

(a) the Local Health Board notifies the GP Registrar of its decision on that application; or

(b) the end of a period of 2 months, starting with the date on which the GP Registrar’s vocational training scheme begins.

(4) In respect of any medical practitioner whose name is included in a medical performers list, the performers list shall include —

(a) the medical practitioner’s full name;

(b) the medical practitioner’s professional registration number with, suffixed to it, the organisational code given by the National Assembly for Wales to the Local Health Board;

(c) the medical practitioner’s date of birth, where the medical practitioner consents, or if not, the date of the medical practitioner’s first registration in both registers;

(d) if the medical practitioner is a contractor, that the medical practitioner is a contractor;

(e) if the medical practitioner is a GP Registrar, that the medical practitioner is a GP Registrar;

(f) if the medical practitioner is an armed forces GP, that the medical practitioner is an armed forces GP; and

(g) the date that the medical practitioner’s name was included in the medical performers list or, if the medical practitioner was included in any medical, supplementary or services list of a Local Health Board, first included in such a list.

(1)

Relevant amendments to sections 15 and 21 are S.I. 1996/1591 and s. 41(10) of and paragraph 61(1) and (4) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Act.

(2)

Relevant amendments are s. 35(1) and (4) of the 1997 Act.