This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in S.S.I. 2004/114 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.

2004 No. 216

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004

Made

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 17P, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 7th June 2004.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 20042

1

The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 20042 shall be amended as provided in this regulation.

2

In regulation 7(5) (decisions and grounds for refusal and deferral) for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraph (4)”.

3

In regulation 10 (removal from the primary medical services performers list of medical practitioners not performing primary medical services)–

a

in paragraphs (1) and (2)(a) for “service” substitute “services”; and

b

in paragraph (7) for “medical practitioner” substitute “performer”.

4

In regulation 11 (re-inclusion in a primary medical services performers list)–

a

for “performer's” substitute “performers”; and

b

for “practitioner” substitute “person”.

5

In sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (3) and sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (8) of regulation 14 (disclosure of information) omit “that” in the second place where it occurs in each of those sub-paragraphs.

6

In Schedule 1–

a

in paragraph 2(b) before “register of medical practitioners” insert “the”;

b

in paragraph 3–

i

in sub-paragraph (b)(iii) omit “in” in the first place where it occurs; and

ii

in sub-paragraph (d)(ii) before “78” insert “paragraph”.

MALCOLM CHISHOLMA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt. Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for lists of general medical practitioners, performing primary medical services which Health Boards are under a duty to provide or secure the provision of, to be kept by those Health Boards.

These Regulations:–

a

correct a reference in the principal Regulations to the deferral of a determination under regulation 7(3) of the principal Regulations which should refer to such a deferral under regulation 7(4) of those Regulations (regulation 2(2));

b

clarify that references to a “medical practitioner” in regulation 10(7), and to a “practitioner” in regulation 11, of the principal Regulations are references to a “performer” and a “person” respectively (regulation 2(3)(b) and (4)(b)); and

c

correct minor drafting errors in the principal Regulations (regulation 2(3)(a), (4)(a), (5) and (6)).