The Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

The Access to Health Records (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (NI 4)

In Article 2(2) in the definition of “general practitioner” for the words from “providing” to the end substitute

• “providing—

  (a)

  general medical services in accordance with arrangements made under Article 56 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; or

  (b)

  personal medical services in accordance with arrangements made under Article 15B of that Order;”.

In Article 3(2) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) in the case of a record made by a general practitioner (other than an employed practitioner), or by a health professional employed by such a general practitioner—

(i) the general practitioner on whose list the patient is included (or, where the patient is included on the list of a medical practice consisting of two or more partners who are general practitioners, any such partner); or

(ii) where the patient is not on any such list, the Health and Social Services Board by arrangement with which a general practitioner last treated him;”.