The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Arrangements for GP Registrars

57.—(1) The contractor may only employ or engage a GP Registrar subject to the conditions in sub‑paragraph (2).

(2) The conditions referred to in sub‑paragraph (1) are that the contractor must not, by reason only of having employed or engaged a GP Registrar, reduce the total number of hours for which other medical practitioners perform primary medical services under the contract or for which other staff assist them in the performance of those services.

(3) A contractor which employs or engages a GP Registrar is to—

(a) offer the GP Registrar terms of employment in accordance with the rates and subject to the conditions contained in any directions given by the Scottish Ministers to NHS Education for Scotland(1) concerning the grants, fees, travelling and other allowances payable to GP Registrars; and

(b) take into account any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers in relation to the GP Registrar Scheme(2).

(1)

NHS Education Scotland is a Special Health Board established under section 2(1)(b) of the Act by S.S.I. 2002/103 (as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2006/79) which applies section 2(5) of the Act to NHS Education Scotland as it applies to Health Boards.

(2)

The current guidance is PCS(GPR) 2009/1, which is available at http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pcs/PCS2009(GPR)01.pdf, as amended by PCS(GPR) 2011/1, which is available at http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pcs/PCS2011(GPR)01.pdf and as amended by PCS(GPR) 2015/1, which is available at http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pcs/PCS2015(GPR)01.pdf.