The Health Services (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

PART II MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Pilot patients for whom boards must make arrangements for the provision of general medical services

2.—(1) Persons who are, under a pilot scheme, being provided with—

(a) personal medical services which are limited to contraceptive services or maternity medical services, or both of them(1); or

(b) personal medical services as temporary residents(2) at a time when their names are included in the list of patients held by a doctor who provides general medical services in the area of a board which is a party to the pilot scheme,

are persons for whom, for the purpose of Article 3(5)(a) of the 1997 Order, a board must make arrangements under Article 56 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 for the provision of general medical services.

(2) In this regulation—

(a) “contraceptive services” means the services described in regulation 3(1)(c) of the 1997 Regulations;

(b) “maternity medical services” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations; and

(c) “temporary resident” has the meaning assigned to it in the Health Services (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(3).

Persons who may perform personal medical services

3.  Persons—

(a) who, whilst not falling within Article 12(2)(a) of the 1997 Order (persons acting in the course of acquiring prescribed experience), are nonetheless acting in the course of acquiring the whole or any part of the general practice experience prescribed by regulation 6 of the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(4) (“the Vocational Training Regulations”); and

(b) who have been issued with a certificate of equivalent experience under regulation 12 of the Vocational Training Regulations,

are prescribed for the purpose of Article 12(2)(c) of the 1997 Order (persons who are not otherwise mentioned in Article 11 of that Order who may perform personal medical services).

(1)

As to the provision of these services to a person who is not provided with other personal medical services under a pilot scheme, see the directions to Health and Social Services Boards concerning the implementation of pilot schemes (personal medical services), given by the Department of Health and Social Services on 19th November 1998

(2)

As to the treatment of temporary residents, see regulation 6 of the Health Services (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (S.R. 1998 No. 412), and paragraph 12 of the directions to Health and Social Services Boards concerning the implementation of pilot schemes (personal medical services) given by the Department of Health and Social Services on 19th November 1998

(3)

S.R. 1998 No. 412

(4)

S.R. 1998 No. 13