The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992

Regulation 3(2) Schedule 2, Paragraph 50

SCHEDULE 13 INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED IN ANNUAL REPORTS

1.  The number of staff, other than doctors, assisting the doctor in his practice, by reference to—

(a) the total number but not by reference to their names;

(b) the principal duties and hours of employment of each employee;

(c) the qualifications of each employee;

(d) the relevant training undertaken by each employee during the preceding 5 years.

2.  The following information as respects the practice premises—

(a) any variations in relation to floor space, design or quality since the last annual report;

(b) any such variations anticipated in the course of the forthcoming period of 12 months.

3.  The following information as respects the referral of patients to other services under the Act during the period of the report:

(a) as respects those by the doctor to a specialist—

(i) the total number of patients referred as in-patients,

(ii) the total number of patients referred as out-patients,

by reference in each case to whichever of the following clinical specialities applies, and specifying in each case the name of the hospital concerned:

• General Surgical

• General Medical

• Orthopaedic

• Rheumatology (Physical Medicine)

• Ear, Nose and Throat

• Gynaecology

• Obstetrics

• Paediatrics

• Ophthalmology

• Psychiatry

• Geriatrics

• Dermatology

• Neurology

• Genito-urinary

• X-ray

• Pathology

• Others (including plastic surgery, accident or emergency and endocrinology); and

(b) the total number of cases of which the doctor is aware (by reference to the categories listed in sub-paragraph (a)) in which a patient referred himself to services under the Act.

4.  The doctor’s other commitment as a medical practitioner, with reference to—

(a) a description of any posts held; and

(b) a description of all work undertaken,

Including, in each case, the annual hourly commitment.

5.  The nature of any arrangements whereby the doctor or his staff received patients' comments on his provision of general medical services.

6.  The following information as respects orders for drugs and appliances:—

(a) whether the doctor’s practice has its own formulary;

(b) whether the doctor uses a separate formulary;

(c) the doctor’s arrangements for the issue of repeat prescriptions to patients.