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

Application for inclusion in a medical performers list

23.—(1) In addition to the information required by regulation 4(2), the general medical practitioner when making an application for inclusion of the general medical practitioner’s name in a medical performers list shall give the following information —

(a) the general medical practitioner’s medical qualifications and where they were obtained, with evidence concerning the general medical practitioner’s qualifications and experience;

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (e), a declaration that the general medical practitioner is a fully registered general medical practitioner included in both registers;

(c) the general medical practitioner’s professional registration number and date of first registration in both registers;

(d) in relation to the general medical practitioner’s professional experience given under regulation 4(2)(e), the general medical practitioner shall separate that information into —

(i) general practice experience,

(ii) hospital appointments, and

(iii) other experience (including obstetric experience),

with full supporting particulars of that experience;

(e) if the general medical practitioner is a GP Registrar, the name and practice address of his or her GP Trainer and, if the general medical practitioner is not a fully registered general medical practitioner included in the register of medical practitioners, a declaration that the medical practitioner is registered in that register with limited registration, with details of the limits of that registration, as defined in the direction by virtue of which the general medical practitioner is registered;

(f) whether the general medical practitioner is a contractor;

(g) if the general medical practitioner is a contractor for more than one scheme and, if so, which schemes and which scheme of those schemes is the relevant scheme; and

(h) whether the general medical practitioner is an armed forces GP.

(2) In addition to the undertakings required by regulation 4(3) the general medical practitioner shall give the following further undertakings —

(a) not to perform any primary medical service in the area of another Local Health Board or equivalent body from whose medical performers list, medical list, services list or supplementary list or equivalent list the general medical practitioner has been removed, except where that removal was at the general medical practitioner’s request or in accordance with regulation 10(6) of these Regulations, regulation 10(6) of the Services List Regulations, regulation 10(7) of the Supplementary List Regulations or regulation 7(2) or (11) of the Medical Regulations or any equivalent provision in Scotland or England, without the consent, in writing, of that Local Health Board or equivalent body;

(b) if the general medical practitioner is a GP Registrar, unless the general medical practitioner has an acquired right under regulation 5(1)(d) of the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994(1), an undertaking -—

(i) not to perform any primary medical service except when acting for and under the supervision of, the general medical practitioner’s GP Trainer;

(ii) to withdraw from the medical performers list if any of the events listed in paragraph (3) takes place, and

(iii) (aa) until the coming into force of article 10 of the 2003 Order, to apply for a certificate of prescribed experience under regulation 10 of, or a certificate of equivalent experience under regulation 12 of, the Vocational Training Regulations, as soon as the general medical practitioner is eligible to do so, and to provide the Local Health Board with a copy of any such certificate; or

(bb) after the coming into force of article 10 of the 2003 Order, to provide the Local Health Board with a evidence of his or her inclusion in the GP Register; and

(c) if the general medical practitioner is a contractor, to comply with the requirements of paragraph 122 of Schedule 6 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2004 (gifts)(2); and

(d) if the general medical practitioner is not a contractor, to comply with the requirements of that paragraph as though the general medical practitioner were a contractor.

(3) The events to which this paragraph applies are -—

(a) the conclusion of any period of training prescribed by regulation 6(3) of the Vocational Training Regulations, or, after the coming into force of articles 4 and 5 of the 2003 Order, any period of general practice training required pursuant to those articles unless —

(i) it forms part of a vocational training scheme which has not yet been concluded, or

(ii) the general medical practitioner provides the Local Health Board with—

(aa) a certificate of prescribed experience under regulation 10 of the Vocational Training Regulations,

(bb) a certificate of equivalent experience under regulation 11 of those Regulations, or

(cc) after the coming into force of article 10 of the 2003 Order, evidence of inclusion in the GP Register;

(b) the failure satisfactorily to complete any period of training within the meaning of regulation 9 of the Vocational Training Regulations, or after the coming into force of articles 4 and 5 of the 2003 Order, of general practice training within the meaning of those article; and

(c) the completion of a vocational training scheme, unless the medical practitioner provides the Local Health Board—

(i) with a certificate of prescribed experience under regulation 10 of, or a certificate of equivalent experience under regulation 12 of, the Vocational Training Regulations; or

(ii) after the coming into force of article 10 of the 2003 Order, evidence of inclusion in the GP Register.

(4) If the medical practitioner is an armed forces GP, the medical practitioner shall not be required to give an undertaking pursuant to regulation 4(3)(e) (undertaking to participate in appraisal system).

(1)

S.I. 1994/3130, as amended by S.I. 1998/669 and 2003/3148.

(2)

S.I. 2004/1478 (W.78).