Part I

Pilot Schemes for Primary Care

General

Preferential treatment on transferring to medical lists
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1
Before the Secretary of State approves a pilot scheme, he must determine whether a participating medical practitioner is to be given preferential treatment under Schedule 1 if he makes an application for his name to be included in the authority’s medical list after ceasing to perform personal medical services under the scheme.
2
Before a pilot scheme is varied so as to permit a new medical practitioner to perform personal medical services under the scheme, the Secretary of State must make a determination under this section in relation to the new practitioner.
3
The Secretary of State may at any time make a determination under this section varying a determination about a medical practitioner if he is asked to do so by the practitioner concerned.
4
Before making any determination under this section, the Secretary of State must publish the criteria by reference to which he will make it.
5
Those criteria may be—
a
criteria applying generally to all determinations;
b
criteria applying only to the pilot scheme in question; or
c
a mixture of both.
6
The Secretary of State must notify the authority and the medical practitioner or practitioners concerned in writing of any determination made by him under this section.
7
Different determinations may be made with respect to different medical practitioners performing personal medical services under the same pilot scheme.
8
A determination may identify the medical practitioner or practitioners to which it applies by name or in any other way.
9
Schedule 1 has effect in relation to preferential treatment for medical practitioners who wish to transfer to medical lists.